Specification, planning, and execution of QoS-aware Grid workflows within the Amadeus environment

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 331-345

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Amadeus environment; Grid workflow; Quality of Service (QoS); UML based specification; Workflow reduction

Indexed keywords

GRID COMPUTING; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING; SPECIFICATIONS; USER INTERFACES;

AMADEUS ENVIRONMENT; UML-BASED SPECIFICATION; WORKFLOW REDUCTION;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 41049117983     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: 15320634     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1215     Document Type: Article

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