Efficient task and workflow scheduling are very important for improving resource
management and reducing power consumption in cloud computing data centers (DCs) …

Nowadays, more and more computer-based scientific experiments need to handle massive
amounts of data. Their data processing consists of multiple computational steps and …

During the recent years, workflows have emerged as an important abstraction for
collaborative research and managing complex large-scale distributed data analytics …

Automation of the execution of computational tasks is at the heart of improving scientific
productivity. Over the last years, scientific workflows have been established as an important …

Abstract The WS-PGRADE/gUSE generic DCI gateway framework has been developed to
support a large variety of user communities. It provides a generic purpose, workflow-oriented …

Workflows are among the most commonly used tools in a variety of execution environments.
Many of them target a specific environment; few of them make it possible to execute an …

Workflow technology continues to play an important role as a means for specifying and
enacting computational experiments in modern science. Reusing and re-purposing …

To improve the efficiency and productivity of modern manufacturing, the requirements for
enterprises are discussed. The new emerged technologies such as cloud computing and …

Workflow scheduling on the Grid becomes more challenging when multiple scheduling
criteria are considered. Existing studies provide different approaches to the multi-criteria …

Scientific workflows are used routinely in numerous scientific domains, and Workflow
Management Systems (WMSs) have been developed to orchestrate and optimize workflow …