# Applicability study of the PRIMAD model to LIGO gravitational wave search workflows

## TL;DR

This study evaluates how well the PRIMAD model, which standardizes experimental components, applies to LIGO gravitational wave search workflows, highlighting its strengths and limitations.

## Contribution

It provides the first assessment of PRIMAD's applicability to complex scientific workflows like LIGO's, revealing its potential and constraints.

## Key findings

- PRIMAD effectively models key components of LIGO workflows.
- Limitations identified in the model's abstraction levels for certain workflow details.
- Insights into how PRIMAD can be adapted or extended for gravitational wave research.

## Abstract

The PRIMAD model with its six components (i.e., Platform, Research Objective, Implementation, Methods, Actors, and Data), provides an abstract taxonomy to represent computational experiments and enforce reproducibility by design. In this paper, we assess the model applicability to a set of Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) workflows from literature sources (i.e., published papers). Our work outlines potentials and limits of the model in terms of its abstraction levels and application process.