A taxonomy of workflow management systems for Grid computing

Journal of Grid Computing

Volumn 3, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 171-200

  Yu, Jia ^a   Buyya, Rajkumar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Grid computing; Resource management; Scheduling; Taxonomy; Workflow management

Indexed keywords

EID: 33244454775     PISSN: 15707873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10723-005-9010-8     Document Type: Article

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