ABSTRACTCarnegie Mellon, School of Computer ScienceManaging Soil Science Experiments Using ZOO Yannis Ioannidis, Miron Livny, Anastassia Ailamaki, Arvind Ranganathan, Andrew Therber, Maria Yuin, Martha Anderson, John Norman Carnegie Mellon University Over the past three years, in collaboration with several domain scientists, we have studied the needs of a wide range of experimental disciplines, developed solutions to some of the basic problems in experiment management, and have made significant progress towards implementing a simple Desktop Experiment Management Environment (DEME) called Zoo. Our work has proceeded in a tight loop between developing generic experiment management technology that is implemented in a generic tool, Zoo, installing customized enhancements of the tool that constitute full systems (complete Customized Desktop Experiment ManagementSystems (CDEMSs)) in laboratories of interest, and using the provided feedback to guide our research directions. FULL PAPER: pdf |