An Agent-Based Domain Specific Framework for Rapid Prototyping of Applications in Evolutionary Biology Export

@incollection{citeulike:4529404, abstract = {In this paper we present a brief overview of the ΦLOG project, aimed at the development of a domain specific framework for the rapid prototyping of applications in evolutionary biology. This includes the development of a domain specific language, called ΦLOG, and an agent-based implementation for the monitoring and execution of ΦLOG's programs. A ΦLOG program – representing an intended application from an evolutionary biologist – is a specification of what to do to achieve her/his goal. The execution and monitoring component of our system will automatically figure out how to do it. We achieve that by viewing the available bioinformatic tools and data repositories as web services and casting the problem of execution of a sequence of bioinformatic services (possibly with loops, branches, and conditionals, specified by biologists) as the web services composition problem.}, author = {Son, Tran C. and Pontelli, Enrico and Ranjan, Desh and Milligan, Brook and Gupta, Gopal}, citeulike-article-id = {4529404}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/ryc40q00x0g8j9gk}, journal = {Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies}, keywords = {agents, evolutionary-biology, framework, prototyping}, pages = {76--96}, posted-at = {2009-05-16 22:14:21}, priority = {2}, title = {An Agent-Based Domain Specific Framework for Rapid Prototyping of Applications in Evolutionary Biology}, url = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/ryc40q00x0g8j9gk}, year = {2004} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:4529404 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4529404 N2 - In this paper we present a brief overview of the ΦLOG project, aimed at the development of a domain specific framework for the rapid prototyping of applications in evolutionary biology. This includes the development of a domain specific language, called ΦLOG, and an agent-based implementation for the monitoring and execution of ΦLOG’s programs. A ΦLOG program – representing an intended application from an evolutionary biologist – is a specification of what to do to achieve her/his goal. The execution and monitoring component of our system will automatically figure out how to do it. We achieve that by viewing the available bioinformatic tools and data repositories as web services and casting the problem of execution of a sequence of bioinformatic services (possibly with loops, branches, and conditionals, specified by biologists) as the web services composition problem. JF - Declarative Agent Languages and Technologies EP - 96 TI - An Agent-Based Domain Specific Framework for Rapid Prototyping of Applications in Evolutionary Biology SP - 76 KW - agents KW - evolutionary-biology KW - framework KW - prototyping AU - Son, Tran AU - Pontelli, Enrico AU - Ranjan, Desh AU - Milligan, Brook AU - Gupta, Gopal PY - 2004/// UR - http://www.springerlink.com/content/ryc40q00x0g8j9gk ER -