Workflows for Intelligent Monitoring using Proxy Services

Grid technologies have proven to be very successful in the area of eScience, and in particular in healthcare applications. But while the applicability of workflow enacting tools for biomedical research has long since been proven, the practical adoption into regular clinical research has some additional challenges in grid context. In this paper, we investigate the case of data monitoring, and how to seamlessly implement the step between a one-time proof-of-concept workflow and high-performance on-line monitoring of data streams, as exemplified by the case of long-running clinical trials. We will present an approach based on proxy services that allows executing single-run workflows repeatedly with little overhead.