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Grid and Workflows

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Encyclopedia of Database Systems

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Built on Internet and World Wide Web, the Grid is a new class of infrastructure which supports coordinated resource sharing and problem solving in dynamic, multi-institutional virtual organizations [6,7]. In a grid architecture, a grid workflow management system is a type of user-level grid middleware. It aims to support large-scale sophisticated scientific and business processes in a variety of complex e-science and e-business applications [7,10,12,15]. Such sophisticated processes are modeled or redesigned as grid workflow specifications at build-time stage by some modeling languages such as Grid Workflow Execution Language (GWEL), Abstract Grid Workflow Language (AGWL), and Martlet [4,5,9]. The specifications normally contain a large number of computation, data and/or transaction intensive activities [1,2,12]. Then, at run-time instantiation stage, grid workflow instances are created [4]. Finally, at run-time execution stage, grid workflow...

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  1. Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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Chen, J., Yang, Y. (2009). Grid and Workflows. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_1472

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