Similarity Search for Scientific Workflows
Summary: Systematic decomposition and controlled evaluation of scientific-workflow similarity methods, isolating atomic, structural, and aggregation choices. Releases reimplementations plus a gold standard of 2,000+ expert ratings over ~1,500 workflows. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Johannes Starlinger (Humboldt University of Berlin)
- 2. Bryan Brancotte (INRIA; National Centre for Scientific Research; University of Paris)
- 3. Sarah Cohen-Boulakia (INRIA; National Centre for Scientific Research; University of Paris)
- 4. Ulf Leser (Humboldt University of Berlin)
BibTeX Citation
@article{starlinger_vldb14,
title = {{Similarity Search for Scientific Workflows}},
author = {Starlinger, Johannes and Brancotte, Bryan and Cohen-Boulakia, Sarah and Leser, Ulf},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '14},
volume = {7},
number = {12},
pages = {1143--1154},
doi = {10.14778/2732977.2732988},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2732977.2732988},
year = {2014}
}
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6,717 | Rank aggregation with ties: Experiments and Analysis | 2015 | VLDB | 5.795458e-05 |
| 10,457 | FlowPilot: A Suggestion System for Designing Scientific Workflows | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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| 9 | 6,931 | Automatically Incorporating New Sources in Keyword Search-Based Data Integration | 2010 | SIGMOD |
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