@inproceedings{60a78f40c0d2467a835cbe34ef116727,
title = "Towards intelligent closed-loop workflows for ecological research",
abstract = "Spurred by needs related to research on the effects of climate change on ecological systems, distributed facilities for ecological research are of growing importance. While software infrastructure for low-level networking services are well-established, experiments using these facilities will demand real time data-driven workflows for monitoring, model inference, and control of environmental processes. In this paper, we motivate and present a middleware-based approach that enables construction and deployment of workflows that assimilate real-time streaming data and, if necessary, command and control streams. We demonstrate the approach by developing and deploying a workflow for characterizing the round-trip delays incurred by increasing levels of software infrastructure, and using the workflow to assess time delay performance in laboratory, campus, and remote scenarios.",
keywords = "Closed loop, Delay, Design, Ecology, Experiments, Middleware, Real-time, Workflows",
author = "Knapp, {J. D.} and Matias Elo and James Shaeffer and Flikkema, {Paul G}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.; 1st International Conference on Dynamic Data-Driven Environmental Systems Science, DyDESS 2014 ; Conference date: 05-11-2014 Through 07-11-2014",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-25138-7_10",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9783319251370",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer-Verlag",
pages = "100--111",
editor = "Adrian Sandu and Sai Ravela",
booktitle = "Dynamic Data-Driven Environmental Systems Science - 1st International Conference, DyDESS 2014, Revised Selected Papers",
}