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 …

Creating scientific workflow applications is a very challenging task due to the complexity of
the distributed computing environments involved, the complex control and data flow …

This paper presents an approach to programming and running scientific applications on grid
and cloud infrastructures based on two principles: the first one is to follow a component …

Scientific applications executed with modern distributed technologies tend to be computed
on various, dispersed resources, and workflows become a natural method of describing …

Semi automatic and semantic composition of workflows from Web and Grid services is an
important challenge in today's distributed applications. This paper focuses on how to model …

The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is an extremely data-intensive environment where each
patient needs to be monitored 24/7. Bedside monitors continuously register vital patient …

The workflow paradigm is one of the most important programming models for the Grid. The
composition of Grid workflows has been widely studied in the Grid community. However …

Composition of workflows of computational tasks, grid jobs, or even web services is not a
new topic. Many papers and research projects have tackled this problem in the past, in …

An emerging software engineering methodology is the combination of functionality and
content from existing software components into service mashups, creating greater value …

Scientific workflows are a means of conducting in silico experiments in modern computing
infrastructures for e-Science, often built on top of Grids. Monitoring of Grid scientific …