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Distributed Workflow Management System based on Publish-Subscribe Notification for Web Services

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In recent years, Grid technologies have been standardized based on Web service specifications. Of these specifications, the WS-Resources Framework and WS-Notification have attracted a great deal of attention. This paper focuses on scientific applications integration on the wide area network. We propose and implement a new distributed workflow management system called the “Application Igniting System.” This system is based on the publish-subscribe notification defined by the WS-Notification specification and realizes a flexible and loosely coupled workflow control by introducing some Web services, which handle message exchange. By applying to a typical bioinformatics workflow, we concluded that the overhead time related to message exchange is very short.

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  1. Graduate School of Engineering, Doshisha University, 1-3 Tatara Miyakodani Kyotanabe, Kyoto, 610-0394, Japan

    Hisashi Shimosaka

  2. Department of Engineering, Doshisha University, 1-3 Tatara Miyakodani Kyotanabe, Kyoto, 610-0394, Japan

    Tomoyuki Hiroyasu & Mitsunori Miki

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Shimosaka, H., Hiroyasu, T. & Miki, M. Distributed Workflow Management System based on Publish-Subscribe Notification for Web Services. New Gener. Comput. 25, 395–408 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00354-007-0025-5

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