Workflow as a Service in the cloud: Architecture and scheduling algorithms

Procedia Computer Science

Volumn 29, Issue , 2014, Pages 546-556

  Wang, Jianwu ^a   Korambath, Prakashan ^b   Altintas, Ilkay ^a   Davis, Jim ^b   Crawl, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud; Workflow; Workflow as a Service (WFaaS) architecture; Workflow scheduling algorithms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLOUDS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; SCHEDULING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

CORE PART; EXECUTION ENVIRONMENTS; WORK-FLOW SYSTEMS; WORK-FLOWS; WORKFLOW; WORKFLOW EXECUTION;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84902777257     PISSN: 18770509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2014.05.049     Document Type: Conference Paper

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