Grid-flow: A Grid-enabled scientific workflow system with a Petri-net-based interface

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1115-1140

  Guan, Zhijie ^a   Hernandez, Francisco ^a   Bangalore, Purushotham ^a   Gray, Jeff ^a   Skjellum, Anthony ^a   Velusamy, Vijay ^a   Liu, Yin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Grid computing; Grid workflow system; Petri net model; Workflow management system

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA STRUCTURES; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAPID PROTOTYPING;

GRID COMPUTING; GRID WORKFLOW SYSTEMS; PETRI-NET MODEL; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

PETRI NETS;

EID: 33747513204     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.988     Document Type: Conference Paper

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