With the advent of cloud computing, organizations are nowadays able to react rapidly to
changing demands for computational resources. Not only individual applications can be …

Modern scientific collaborations have opened up the opportunity to solve complex problems
that require both multidisciplinary expertise and large-scale computational experiments …

Scientific workflow scheduling involves the allocation of workflow tasks to particular
computational resources. The generation of optimal solutions to reduce run-time, cost, and …

In the recent years, the use of workflows has significantly expanded from its original domain
of business processes towards new areas. The increasing demand for individual and more …

Background Over the past decade the workflow system paradigm has evolved as an efficient
and user-friendly approach for develo** complex bioinformatics applications. Two popular …

In business process landscapes, a common challenge is to provide the necessary
computational resources to enact the single process steps. One well-known approach to …

With the increasing popularity of scientific workflows, public repositories are gaining
importance as a means to share, find, and reuse such workflows. As the sizes of these …

Scientific discoveries in the natural sciences are increasingly data driven and
computationally intensive, providing unprecedented data analysis and scientific simulation …

This book addresses the challenge of user-level workflow design with a particular focus on
the bioinformatics application domain. Towards this aim, it follows a novel, constraint-driven …

Scientific workflows are a cornerstone of modern scientific computing, and they have
underpinned some of the most significant discoveries of the last decade. Many of these …