The emerging paradigm of electronic services promises to bring to distributed computation
and services the flexibility that the web has brought to the sharing of documents. An …

Grid workflow can be defined as the composition of grid application services which execute
on heterogeneous and distributed resources in a well-defined order to accomplish a specific …

Modern scientific applications often need to be distributed across Grids. Increasingly
applications rely on services, such as job submission, data transfer or data portal services …

This paper introduces the multiagent protocols (MAP) Web service choreography language
and demonstrates how service choreographies can be specified, verified, and enacted with …

The technology of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web service provides a
promising method to rapidly develop the distributed interoperable system for E-commerce …

Cyberinfrastructure (CI) represents the integrated information and communication
technologies for distributed information processing and coordinated knowledge discovery …

Selection is one of the fundamental building blocks of all interactive virtual environment
systems. Selection is the ability of the user to specify which object, or sub-part of an object in …

Advances in computer technologies have enabled scientists to explore research issues in
their respective domains at scales greater and finer than ever before. The availability of …

In grid workflow systems, a checkpoint selection strategy is responsible for selecting
checkpoints for conducting temporal verification at the runtime execution stage. Existing …

This article presents a graph‐based Grid workflow language that is based on the formalism
of Petri nets and the corresponding workflow enactment machine, developed by the author …