Scientists are increasingly utilizing Grids to manage large data sets and execute scientific experiments on distributed resources. Scientific workflows are used as means for modeli...
We propose a unifying framework for model-based specification notations. Our framework captures the execution semantics that are common among model-based notations, and leaves the...
While the Grid and Web Services have helped us support heterogeneous resource access through the use of service oriented architectures, they have not addressed the issue of hetero...
A read-only transaction (ROT) does not modify any data. Efforts are being made in the literature to improve the performance of ROTs without correctness and data currency issues. T...
Ensuring transactional behavior of business processes and web service compositions is an essential issue in the area of serviceoriented computing. Transactions in this context may ...