Purpose
To provide a general purpose component for handling actions which should be taken on the basis of remote events.
The following is a very abstract representation for the design of this agent:
Features
Currently a prototype exists which uses RSS feeds to trigger submissions to the Workflow Broker on the basis of mesoscale activity for severe storms.
The image below represents the cumulative results of triggered workflows run as part of the LEAD 2007 Spring Forecast experiment.
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