Bio-STEER: A Semantic Web workflow tool for Grid computing in the life sciences

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 497-509

  Lee, Sung ^a   Wang, Taowei David ^b   Hashmi, Nada ^c   Cummings, Michael P ^d  

^a FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^d Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Client server; Distributed systems; Integrated environments; Semantics; User interface; Web base services; Workflow management

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CLIENT/SERVER; INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTS; WEB-BASE SERVICES; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 33750809488     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2006.07.011     Document Type: Article

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