Some recent trends in business and manufacturing hold the promise of greater profits, yet, due to profit-robbing inventory increases, this promise has not been fully realized. [9]...
Indu Bingham, Barbara Hoefle, Kim Phan, Jim Sizemo...
Numerous Grid workflow engines exist, each generally specialized for a single application domain such as protein folding. Although the underlying purpose and functionality of the ...
Sharanya Eswaran, David Del Vecchio, Glenn S. Wass...
Transactional requirements, from new application domains and execution environments, are varying and may exceed traditional ACID properties. We believe that transactional middlewa...
Anna-Brith Arntsen, Marts Mortensen, Randi Karlsen...
The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) provides a methodology for designing software systems by integrating loosely coupled services. Compared to traditional distributed object-o...
Ziyang Duan, Subhra Bose, Charles A. Shoniregun, P...
Abstract. Orc is a new language for task orchestration, a form of concurrent programming with applications in workflow, business process management, and web service orchestration. ...