Speaker
V M. Moreira do Amaral
(UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM)
Description
There is a permanent quest for user friendliness in HEP Analysis. This
growing need is directly proportional to the analysis frameworks'
interface complexity. In fact, the user is provided with an analysis
framework that makes use of a General Purpose Language to program the
query algorithms. Usually the user finds this overwhelming, since he
or she is presented with the complexity of the intricacies of the
systems. This way the final user of HEP experiments becomes a forced
programmer or an application developer.
In our opinion this inflicts directly or indirectly in the query
system performances. For this reason we have decided to invest in a
line of research to find a solution that balances the complexity and
variability of the analysis queries with the need for simpler query
systems interfaces. The ultimate goal is to save time on query
algorithms production and to have a way to increase efficiency.
In this communication we are going to present how we explored the
hypothesis of generating a visual query language specific for the HEP
high level analysis domain. The prototyped framework developed so far,
PHEASANT, is supporting our arguments in the feasibility of this
approach. Therefore, like in any young Human Centric development
project, this raises the need of a broad discussion in order to
validate it. We believe to be opening an new fruitful research topic
among the community and we expect to motivate both computer science
and physics experts into the same discussion.
Primary author
V M. Moreira do Amaral
(UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM)
Co-authors
G. Moerkotte
(UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM)
S. Helmer
(UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM)
