A transaction defines a locus of computation that satisfies important concurrency and failure properties; these so-called ACID properties provide strong serialization guarantees ...
Jan Vitek, Suresh Jagannathan, Adam Welc, Antony L...
We describe the goals and proposed design for SimTK, part of the NIH-supported Simbios National Center for Biomedical Computing. SimTK (Simulation ToolKit) will enable biomedical ...
Scott L. Delp, F. Clayton Anderson, Russ B. Altman
Nested-parallelism programming models, where the task graph associated to a computation is series-parallel, present good analysis properties that can be exploited for scheduling, c...
One of the most important tasks performed in the early stages of a data warehouse project is the analysis of the structure and content of the existing data sources and their inten...
Workflow technology is an emerging paradigm for systematic modeling and orchestration of job flow for enterprise and scientific applications. This paper introduces BPEL4Job, a BPEL...