TY - CHAP SN - 978-3-642-17226-7 AU - Karastoyanova, Dimka T1 - On Scientific Experiments and Flexible Service Compositions T2 - From Active Data Management to Event-Based Systems and More: Papers in Honor of Alejandro Buchmann on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday ED - Sachs, Kai ED - Petrov, Ilia ED - Guerrero, Pablo PY - 2010 CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17226-7_11 SP - 175 EP - 194 AB - The IT support for scientific experimenting and e-science is currently not at the level of maturity of the support enterprises obtain. Since recently there is a trend of reusing existing enterprise software and related concepts for scientific experiments, scientific workflows and simulation. Most notably these are the workflow technology, which is widely used in business process management (BPM), and integration paradigms like the service oriented architecture (SOA). In this work we give an overview of open issues in the support for scientific experiments and possible approaches to addressing them in a service-based environment. We identify the need for enhancing the BPM practices, technologies and techniques in order to render them applicable in the area of scientific experimenting. We stress on the even greater importance of workflow flexibility and also show why flexibility techniques are crucial when it is about improving the IT support for scientists. DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-17226-7_11 M4 - Citavi ER -