Process Makna - A Semantic Wiki for Scientific Workflows

TL;DR

This paper introduces Process Makna, a Semantic Wiki-based system designed to facilitate user-friendly, knowledge-intensive interaction for executing scientific workflows in virtual e-Science infrastructures.

Contribution

It presents a novel integration of a business process management system with a Semantic Wiki interface tailored for scientific workflows.

Findings

Enhanced human interaction during workflow execution

Improved accessibility for non-technical scientists

Seamless integration of process management and semantic web technologies

Abstract

Virtual e-Science infrastructures supporting Web-based scientific workflows are an example for knowledge-intensive collaborative and weakly-structured processes where the interaction with the human scientists during process execution plays a central role. In this paper we propose the lightweight dynamic user-friendly interaction with humans during execution of scientific workflows via the low-barrier approach of Semantic Wikis as an intuitive interface for non-technical scientists. Our Process Makna Semantic Wiki system is a novel combination of an business process management system adapted for scientific workflows with a Corporate Semantic Web Wiki user interface supporting knowledge intensive human interaction tasks during scientific workflow execution.