TY - JOUR A1 - Müller-Iden, Jens A1 - Dünnweber, Jan A1 - Gorlatch, Sergei A1 - Alt, Martin A1 - Fujita, Hamido A1 - Funyu, Yutaka T1 - Clayworks: Toward user-oriented software for collaborative modeling JF - Knowledge-Based Systems N2 - We consider the development of software systems that integrate collaborative real-time modeling and distributed computing. Our main goal is user-orientation: we need a collaborative workspace for geographically dispersed users with a seamless access of every user to high-performance servers. This paper presents a particular prototype, Clayworks, that allows modeling of virtual clay objects and running computation-intensive deformation simulations for objects crashing into each other. In order to integrate heterogeneous computational resources, we adopt modern Grid middleware and provide the users with an intuitive graphical interface. Simulations are parallelized using a higher-order component (HOC) which abstracts over the web service resource framework (WSRF) used to interconnect our worksuite to the computation server. Clayworks is a representative of a large class of demanding systems which combine collaborative, user-oriented modeling with performance-critical computations, e.g., crash-tests or simulations of biological population evolution. KW - User-oriented software development KW - Collaborative environments KW - Real-time modeling KW - High-performance simulation Y1 - 2008 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2008.12.001 VL - 22 IS - 3 SP - 209 EP - 215 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford, UK ER -