Pattern-Based Personalized Workflow Fragment Discovery

The workflow fragment discovery is essential to facilitate the reuse and repurposing of the best-practices evidenced by legacy workflows. A novel scientific experiment may be satisfied by the composition of (i) fragments that correspond to general functionalities, and (ii) other fragments that are personalized somehow, in the domain. We denote these types of fragments as basic and personalized patterns, respectively. Based on this observation, this paper proposes a novel workflow fragments discovery mechanism. Evaluation results demonstrate that this technique is more accurate in discovering personalized workflow fragments than the state of art's techniques.