The description, composition, and execution of even logically simple scientific workflows are often complicated by the need to deal with "messy" issues like heterogeneou...
Yong Zhao, James E. Dobson, Ian T. Foster, Luc Mor...
This paper proposes an approach to the problem of generating metadata for composite mixed-media digital objects by appropriately combining and exploiting existing knowledge or met...
Service-oriented architecture facilitates rapid development and management of large-scale distributed servicebased systems (SBS), where new workflows are composed of available serv...
Advanced Business Process Management (BPM) tools enable the decomposition of previously integrated and often ill-defined processes into reusable process modules. These process modu...
A schedule of a Petri Net (PN) represents a set of firing sequences that can be infinitely repeated within a bounded state space, regardless of the outcomes of the nondeterminis...
Cong Liu, Alex Kondratyev, Yosinori Watanabe, Albe...