Provenance-based Validation of E-Science Experiments

Wong, S. C., Miles, S., Fang, W., Groth, P. and Moreau, L. (2005) Provenance-based Validation of E-Science Experiments. In: 4th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), 6-10 November 2005, Galway, Ireland. pp. 801-815.

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Abstract

E-Science experiments typically involve many distributed services maintained by different organisations. After an experiment has been executed, it is useful for a scientist to verify that the execution was performed correctly or is compatible with some existing experimental criteria or standards. Scientists may also want to review and verify experiments performed by their colleagues. There are no exsiting frameworks for validating such experiments in today's e-Science systems. 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 $\emph{provenance}$ of experiment results and $\emph{semantic descriptions}$ 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.

Creators:	Sylvia C Wong, Simon Miles, Weijian Fang, Paul Groth, Luc Moreau
Editors:	Yolanda Gil, Enrico Motta, V. Richard Benjamins, Mark A. Musen
Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Research Group:	Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia
Deposited On:	22 Aug 2005 by Wong, Sylvia
Alternative Locations:	http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=arti...
ISBN:	3-540-29754-5
ID Code:	11161
Last Modified:	11 Nov 2009 12:23
Performance Indicator:	EZ~05~05~04
Citations:	ISI: 7, Google Scholar: 23