Many developments have taken place within dataflow programming languages in the past
decade. In particular, there has been a great deal of activity and advancement in the field of …

The design of modern scientific experiments requires the control and monitoring of many
different data streams. However, the serial execution of programming instructions in a …

Dataflow Programming (DFP) has been a research topic of Software Engineering since the
'70s. The paradigm models computer programs as a direct graph, promoting the application …

In the era of Big Data, web automation is frequently used by data scientists, domain experts,
and programmers to complete time-consuming data collection tasks. However, developing …

Whereas a consensus has been reached on defining the set of workflow patterns for
business process modeling languages, no such patterns exists for workflows applied to …

We investigate interoperability aspects of scientific workflow systems and argue that the
workflow execution environment, the model of computation (MoC), and the workflow …

Composing Web services into a coherent application can be a tedious and error-prone task
when using traditional textual scripting languages or emerging XML-based approaches. As …

Web services are attracting attention because of their ability to provide standard interfaces to
heterogeneous distributed services. Standard interfaces make it possible to compose more …

Composing Web services into a coherent application can be a tedious and error prone task
when using traditional textual scripting languages. As an alternative, complex interactions …

Recent innovations in visual programming and the use of direct manipulation for
programming have demonstrated promise, but also raise questions about how far these …