Authors:
Francesco Amigoni
1
;
Mariagrazia Fugini
1
and
Diego Liberati
2
Affiliations:
1
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
;
2
Istituto di Elettronica e Ingegneria dell’Informazione e delle Telecomunicazioni, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Keyword(s):
Virtual Organizations, Cooperative Information Systems, e-Science, Bioinformatics, e-Collaboration, Web Services, Multiagent Systems.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Internet and Collaborative Computing
;
Intranet and Extranet Business Applications
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Web Information Agents
Abstract:
Interactions and organization models tend to be more and more oriented to flexibility, heterogeneity and collaboration in the style of Virtual Organizations. This paper is framed in the context of e-science and presents an approach to the definition and execution of distributed scientific experiments as a pool of services executed on collaborating sites at different heterogeneous organizations. The focus is on flexibility, reuse, orchestration and interoperability of services within a cooperation process. It is discussed how the workflow of the experiment can be specified by actors with low information technology, but high domain, knowledge and how an agent-based framework can enhance the flexibility of experiment execution. Examples are given in the bioinformatics context. A prototype environment is described.