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Grid and Workflows

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Built on Internet and World Wide Web, the Grid is a new class of infrastructure which supports coordinated resource sharing and problem solving in dynamic, multi-institutional virtual organizations [6, 7]. In a grid architecture, a grid workflow management system is a type of user-level grid middleware. It aims to support large-scale sophisticated scientific and business processes in a variety of complex e-science and e-business applications [7, 10, 12, 15]. Such sophisticated processes are modeled or redesigned as grid workflow specifications at build-time stage by some modeling languages such as Grid Workflow Execution Language (GWEL), Abstract Grid Workflow Language (AGWL), and Martlet [4, 5, 9]. The specifications normally contain a large number of computation, data and/or transaction intensive activities [1, 2, 12]. Then, at run-time instantiation stage, grid workflow instances are created [4]. Finally, at run-time execution stage, grid...

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  1. Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Jinjun Chen & Yun Yang

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

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  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

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    Barbara Pernici

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Chen, J., Yang, Y. (2018). Grid and Workflows. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_1472

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