Workflow management for soft real-time interactive applications in virtualized environments

Future Generation Computer Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 193-209

  Gogouvitis, Spyridon ^a   Konstanteli, Kleopatra ^a   Waldschmidt, Stefan ^b   Kousiouris, George ^a   Katsaros, Gregory ^a   Menychtas, Andreas ^a   Kyriazis, Dimosthenis ^a   Varvarigou, Theodora ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Digital Film Technology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Quality of service; Service oriented infrastructures; Soft real time applications; Workflow management

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION COMPONENTS; APPLICATION SCENARIO; COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENTS; CRITICAL APPLICATIONS; DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS; MULTI-USER; POST-PRODUCTION; SERVICE ORIENTED; SERVICE-ORIENTED INFRASTRUCTURES; SOFT REAL TIME; SOFT REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS; SOFT REAL-TIME SYSTEMS; TIMING CONSTRAINTS; VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT; WORK-FLOWS; WORKFLOW MANAGEMENTS;

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; CLOUD COMPUTING; CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SERVICES; MANAGEMENT; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TIMING CIRCUITS; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 80052814238     PISSN: 0167739X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2011.05.017     Document Type: Conference Paper

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