title: Kepler WebView: A Lightweight, Portable Framework for Constructing Real-time Web Interfaces of Scientific Workflows.
abstract: Modern web technologies facilitate the creation of high-quality data visualizations, and rich, interactive components across a wide variety of devices. Scientific workflow systems can greatly benefit from these technologies by giving scientists a better understanding of their data or model leading to new insights. While several projects have enabled web access to scientific workflow systems, they are primarily organized as a large portal server encapsulating the workflow engine. In this vision paper, we propose the design forKepler WebView, a lightweight framework that integrates web technologies with the Kepler Scientific Workflow System. By embedding a web server in the Kepler process, Kepler WebView enables a wide variety of usage scenarios that would be difficult or impossible using the portal model.
authors.affiliation: San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Crawl
authors.affiliation: San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego.
authors.forename: Alok
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.affiliation: San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego.
authors.forename: Ilkay
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Altintas
keywords: Data-driven Visualizations; Scientific Workflows; Web Access