Earth system modelling with Windows Workflow Foundation

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 586-597

  Fairman, Matthew J ^a   Price, Andrew R ^a   Xue, Gang ^a   Molinari, Marc ^a   Nicole, Denis A ^a   Lenton, Timothy M ^b   Marsh, Robert ^a   Takeda, Kenji ^a   Cox, Simon J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Earth and atmospheric sciences; Windows Workflow Foundation; Workflow management

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FOUNDATIONS; MATLAB; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY; WINDOWS; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

BI STABILITIES; CARBON CYCLES; COMPONENT MODELS; EARTH AND ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES; EARTH SYSTEMS; EVENT-DRIVEN; MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; MATLAB ENVIRONMENTS; OCEANIC THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS; PARAMETRIC STUDIES; SCIENTIFIC WORKFLOWS; SIMULATION SYSTEMS; TIME-SCALES; TRACKING SERVICES; WINDOWS WORKFLOW FOUNDATION; WORK-FLOWS; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT;

MANAGEMENT;

EID: 59849088533     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2008.06.011     Document Type: Article

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