A Modeling Methodology for Scientific Processes

Abstract

Scientists are more and more dealing with complex scenarios during their daily research work. Processes are being used to describe these scenarios and help to understand them – on the outside thanks to graphical notations, on the inside thanks to structured methods which are necessary to conquer the information flood. However many modeling systems and their underlying methodology are confronting problems during the development of a scientific workflow. We want to present our methodology which eliminates these pitfalls and demonstrates its usage in the scientific application domain with an example from ecological research.