Workflow applications executed in Grid environments are not able to take advantage of all the potential parallelism they might have. This limitation in the usage of parallelism com...
The Web Services Resource Framework (WS-RF) and the Web Services Notification (WS-N) specifications are a crucial component of Grid infrastructures. They provide a standardized int...
Business Process Management (BPM) technology has become an important instrument for improving process performance. When considering its use, however, enterprises typically have to...
: The integration and usage of uncertain sensor data in workflows is a difficult problem. In this paper we describe these difficulties which result from the combination of very dis...
— To optimize makespan and reliability for workflow applications, most existing works use list heuristics rather than genetic algorithms (GAs) which can usually give better solut...