Citation
Ben Leinfelder, Ilkay Altintas, Derik Barseghian, Daniel Crawl, Matt Jones, Aaron T Schultz, Staggs Debi. "An integrated approach to managing workflow runs and generating reports in Kepler". Talk or presentation, 16, April, 2009; Presented at the 8th Biennial Ptolemy Miniconference.

Abstract
Typical scientific use cases for Kepler require complex workflows that are executed many times with varying input data and parameter settings and that generate many data products during each run. Kepler currently cannot effectively track these myriad workflow executions, nor does it effectively manage the products generated by them in a way that is accessible and understandable to scientific users. Thus, effectively capturing and reviewing the output of a scientific analysis is a daunting chore for Kepler users. We have designed new capabilities in Kepler to solve these issues: a Workflow Run Manager and a Report Designer. The workflow run management tool provides browsing and searching of provenance repositories and allows users to easily find, manage, and view previous workflow executions. It can also be used to export workflow execution results with full provenance information in order to exchange or publish the results with other scientists. The report design module provides effective visualization of workflow products - from input parameters to generated chart graphics - and lets workflow authors specify a simple report layout for displaying these pertinent items after execution. The initial design for this work targets a standalone report in PDF format that can be distributed outside of Kepler and that is also linked to the run manager to allow easy exploration of previous runs from within the Kepler user interface.

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  Ben Leinfelder, Ilkay Altintas, Derik Barseghian, Daniel
  Crawl, Matt Jones, Aaron T Schultz, Staggs Debi. <a
  href="http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/559.html"
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  runs and generating reports in Kepler</i></a>,
  Talk or presentation,  16, April, 2009; Presented at the 8th
  Biennial Ptolemy Miniconference.

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  Ben Leinfelder, Ilkay Altintas, Derik Barseghian, Daniel
  Crawl, Matt Jones, Aaron T Schultz, Staggs Debi. "An
  integrated approach to managing workflow runs and generating
  reports in Kepler". Talk or presentation,  16, April,
  2009; Presented at the 8th Biennial Ptolemy Miniconference.

• BibTeX

  @presentation{LeinfelderAltintasBarseghianCrawlJonesSchultzDebi09_IntegratedApproachToManagingWorkflowRunsGeneratingReports,
      author = {Ben Leinfelder and Ilkay Altintas and Derik
                Barseghian and Daniel Crawl and Matt Jones and
                Aaron T Schultz and Staggs Debi},
      title = {An integrated approach to managing workflow runs
                and generating reports in Kepler},
      day = {16},
      month = {April},
      year = {2009},
      note = {Presented at the 8th Biennial Ptolemy
                Miniconference.},
      abstract = {Typical scientific use cases for Kepler require
                complex workflows that are executed many times
                with varying input data and parameter settings and
                that generate many data products during each run.
                Kepler currently cannot effectively track these
                myriad workflow executions, nor does it
                effectively manage the products generated by them
                in a way that is accessible and understandable to
                scientific users. Thus, effectively capturing and
                reviewing the output of a scientific analysis is a
                daunting chore for Kepler users. We have designed
                new capabilities in Kepler to solve these issues:
                a Workflow Run Manager and a Report Designer. The
                workflow run management tool provides browsing and
                searching of provenance repositories and allows
                users to easily find, manage, and view previous
                workflow executions. It can also be used to export
                workflow execution results with full provenance
                information in order to exchange or publish the
                results with other scientists. The report design
                module provides effective visualization of
                workflow products - from input parameters to
                generated chart graphics - and lets workflow
                authors specify a simple report layout for
                displaying these pertinent items after execution.
                The initial design for this work targets a
                standalone report in PDF format that can be
                distributed outside of Kepler and that is also
                linked to the run manager to allow easy
                exploration of previous runs from within the
                Kepler user interface. },
      URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/559.html}
  }
  

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