The exceptional growth of graphics hardware in programmability and data processing speed in the past few years has fuelled extensive research in using it for general purpose compu...
evel of abstraction, we can represent a workflow as a directed graph with operators (or tasks) at the vertices (see Figure 1). Each operator takes inputs from data sources or from ...
While there seems to be a general agreement that next years' systems will include many processing cores, it is often overlooked that these systems will also include an increa...
The support of process enactment through the use of workflow management systems has gained considerable attention within the last few years. We develop a classification framework c...
According to a survey of the University of Berkeley [6], about 5 Exabytes of new information has been created in 2002. This information explosion affects also the database volumes...