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Requirements for a Workflow System for Grid Service Composition

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Business Process Management Workshops (BPM 2006)

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In this position paper, we propose a new generation workflow system for grid services. We observe that grid computing has become an increasingly important application domain in computer science. Grid services — a new technology based on web services — are expected to become the de facto standard for grid computing. Similar to web services, an effective mechanism is needed for the composition of grid services. Existing technologies, however, have a number of important drawbacks: they have limited or no support for modularization of crosscutting concerns, for dynamic workflow adaptation, and for high-performance computing. We propose a new generation workflow system that is tailored specifically for grid services, and that tackles these problems, among others.

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  1. System and Software Engineering Lab (SSEL), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050, Brussels, Belgium

    Niels Joncheere, Wim Vanderperren & Ragnhild Van Der Straeten

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  2. Distributed Systems Group, Information Systems Institute, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

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Joncheere, N., Vanderperren, W., Van Der Straeten, R. (2006). Requirements for a Workflow System for Grid Service Composition. In: Eder, J., Dustdar, S. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4103. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11837862_35

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