Abstract:
In recent years Scientific Workflows have enormously gained importance, while Workflow Management has been a major aspect of enterprise systems since the 1990s. Business processes as well as queries of biological databases are modelled as workflows. In comparison to other programs, workflows contain a very high degree of domain-specific logic, thus rendering a close cooperation of subect matter experts and software engineers inevitable. This dissertation presents concepts and processes for collaborative workflow development, with the example of e-biology workflows. A set of workflow metrics has been evaluated for controlling these processes. The results were implemented in prototype Rich Internet Applications.