An approach for the high-level specification of QoS-aware grid workflows considering location affinity

Scientific Programming

Volumn 14, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 231-250

  Brandic, Ivona ^a   Pllana, Sabri ^a   Benkner, Siegfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Location affinity; Quality of Service (QoS); UML based Grid workflow specification; Workflow planning; Workflow reduction

Indexed keywords

DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE; UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

LOCATION AFFINITY; UML-BASED GRID WORKFLOW SPECIFICATION; WORKFLOW PLANNING; WORKFLOW REDUCTION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33947536691     PISSN: 10589244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2006/670375     Document Type: Article

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