Capability passing processes model global applications in a way that decouples the global agreement aspects of protocols from the details of how the communications are actually ma...
Abstract. The specification of business processes is becoming a more and more critical aspect for organizations. Such processes are specified as workflow models expressing the logi...
Product line engineering allows for the rapid development of variants of a domain specific application by using a common set of reusable assets often known as core assets. Variabil...
Modern scientific applications consume massive volumes of data produced by computer simulations. Such applications require new data management capabilities in order to scale to te...
Efficient and robust metacomputing requires the decomposition of complex jobs into tasks that must be scheduled on distributed processing nodes. There are various ways of creating...