Flexible selection of heterogeneous and unreliable services in large-scale grids

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1897, 2009, Pages 2483-2494

  Stein, Sebastian ^a   Payne, Terry R ^a   Jennings, Nicholas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grids; Reliability; Service selection; Service oriented computing

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER SCIENCE;

ABSTRACT WORKFLOW; DECISION-THEORETIC; DISTRIBUTED SERVICE; GRIDS; ON-DEMAND; OVER CURRENT; REAL-WORLD; SERVICE SELECTION; SERVICE-ORIENTED COMPUTING; THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS; WORK-FLOWS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 67650314653     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2009.0045     Document Type: Article

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