To program in distributed computing environments such as grids and clouds, workflow is
adopted as an attractive paradigm for its powerful ability in expressing a wide range of …

With the exception of a few Mendelian traits, almost all phenotypes (traits) in livestock
science are quantitative or complex traits regulated by the expression of many genes. For …

Today's genomic experiments have to process the so-called “biological big data” that is now
reaching the size of Terabytes and Petabytes. To process this huge amount of data …

Simulation has become a commonly employed first step in evaluating novel approaches
towards resource allocation and task scheduling on distributed architectures. However …

Cloud computing represents a promising computing paradigm, where computational power
is provided as a utility. An important characteristic of Cloud computing, other than in similar …

Cloud computing is a newly emerged computing infrastructure that builds on the latest
achievements of diverse research areas, such as Grid computing, Service-oriented …

Constraints management is the process of satisfying bottlenecks to facilitate tasks assigned
to crews being successfully executed. However, managing constraints is inherently …

Scientific problems can be formulated as workflows to allow them to take advantage of
cluster computing resources. Generally, the assumption is that the greater the resources …

Over the last two decades, scientific workflow management systems (SWfMS) have emerged
as a means to facilitate the design, execution, and monitoring of reusable scientific data …

Prefabrication housing production (PHP) processes are fragmented and full of variability.
Their schedule reliability is particularly disturbed by the constraints deriving from task …