Sharing huge databases in distributed systems is inherently difficult. As the amount of stored data increases, data localization techniques become no longer sufficient. A more ef...
Rabab Hayek, Guillaume Raschia, Patrick Valduriez,...
In multicluster systems, and more generally, in grids, jobs may require co-allocation, i.e., the simultaneous allocation of resources such as processors and input files in multipl...
Practical experience indicates that the definition of realworld workflow applications is a complex and error-prone process. Existing workflow management systems provide the means,...
Christos T. Karamanolis, Dimitra Giannakopoulou, J...
This paper presents the formal syntax and the operational semantics of Taverna, a workflow management system with a large user base among the e-Science community. Such formal foun...
Daniele Turi, Paolo Missier, Carole A. Goble, Davi...
This paper deals with pipelined queries over services. The execution plan of such queries defines an order in which the services are called. We present the theoretical underpinni...