The Design of Cloud Workflow Systems

• Main Authors: Liu, Xiao (Author), Yuan, Dong (Author), Zhang, Gaofeng (Author), Li, Wenhao (Author), Cao, Dahai (Author), He, Qiang (Author), Chen, Jinjun (Author), Yang, Yun (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2012.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Computer Science,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Software engineering.; Computer Science.; Computer Communication Networks.; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems.

Cloud computing is the latest market-oriented computing paradigm which brings software design and development into a new era characterized by “XaaS”, i.e. everything as a service. Cloud workflows, as typical software applications in the cloud, are composed of a set of partially ordered cloud softwar...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Workflow Systems in the Cloud
• Cloud Workflow System Architecture
• Cloud Workflow System Functionality
• Cloud Workflow System Quality of Service
• Case Study: SWINDEW-C Cloud Workflow System
• Bibliography
• Appendices.