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  title info:
    title: Scientific Workflows
    sub title: Programming, Optimization, and Synthesis with ASKALON and AWDL
  name:
    name part: Qin, Jun.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Fahringer, Thomas.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXII, 222 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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 requirements of scientific applications, and the lack of high-level languages and tools support. Particularly, sophisticated expertise in distributed computing is commonly required to determine the software entities to perform computations of workflow tasks, the computers on which workflow tasks are to be executed, the actual execution order of workflow tasks, and the data transfer between them. Qin and Fahringer present a novel workflow language called Abstract Workflow Description Language (AWDL) and the corresponding standards-based, knowledge-enabled tool support, which simplifies the development of scientific workflow applications. AWDL is an XML-based language for describing scientific workflow applications at a high level of abstraction. It is designed in a way that allows users to concentrate on specifying such workflow applications without dealing with either the complexity of distributed computing environments or any specific implementation technology. This research monograph is organized into five parts: overview, programming, optimization, synthesis, and conclusion, and is complemented by an appendix and an extensive reference list. The topics covered in this book will be of interest to both computer science researchers (e.g. in distributed programming, grid computing, or large-scale scientific applications) and domain scientists who need to apply workflow technologies in their work, as well as engineers who want to develop distributed and high-throughput workflow applications, languages and tools.
  table of contents: Part I Overview -- Introduction -- Prerequisites -- Part II Programming -- Abstract Workflow Description Language (AWDL) -- Workflow Modularization -- UML Based Scientific Workflow Modeling -- Part III Optimization -- Collection Oriented Data Flow Support for Scientific Workflows -- Part IV Synthesis -- Semantic-Based Scientific Workflow Composition -- Automatic Scientific Workflow Composition -- Part V Related Work -- Related Work -- Part VI Conclusions -- Conclusions -- Part VII Appendices -- Acronyms -- Symbols.
  note: by Jun Qin, Thomas Fahringer.
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
  subject:
    topic: Computer communication systems
  subject:
    topic: Special purpose computers
  subject:
    topic: Artificial intelligence
  subject:
    topic: Application software
  subject:
    topic: Computer Science
  subject:
    topic: Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
  subject:
    topic: Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems
  subject:
    topic: Computer Communication Networks
  subject:
    topic: Computer Applications
  subject:
    topic: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)
  classification: QA76.76.A65
  classification: 005.7
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      title: Springer eBooks
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