Validation of E-Science Experiments using a Provenance-based Approach

Wong, S. C., Miles, S., Fang, W., Groth, P. and Moreau, L. (2005) Validation of E-Science Experiments using a Provenance-based Approach. In: 4th UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM), 19 - 22nd September, Nottingham.

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Abstract

E-science experiments typically involve many distributed services maintained by different organisations.
As part of the scientific process, it is important for scientists to be able to verify the
correctness of their own experiments, or to review the correctness of their peers’ work. There is no
existing framework for validating such experiments. Users therefore have to rely on error checking
performed by the services, or adopt other ad hoc methods. This paper introduces a platform independent
framework for validating workflow executions. The validation relies on reasoning over the
documented provenance of experiment results and semantic descriptions of services advertised in a
registry. This validation process ensures experiments are performed correctly, and thus results generated
are meaningful. The framework is tested in a bioinformatics application that performs protein
compressibility analysis.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Creator/Authors:	Sylvia C Wong Simon Miles Weijian Fang Paul Groth Luc Moreau
Research Group:	Current ECS Groups > Web and Internet Science Old ECS Groups > Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia
ISBN:	1-904425-53-4
Date:	2005
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Citations:	Google Scholar: 6
Downloads (2010):	51
ID Code:	11063
Last Modified:	23 Sep 2011 10:32
Deposited On:	14 Jul 2005 by Wong, Sylvia

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