Leveraging Legacy Workflow Capabilities in a Grid Environment

Author

Liyong, Zhang ; Zhuofeng, Zhao ; Houfu, Li

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Technol., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing

fYear

2007

fDate

16-18 Aug. 2007

Firstpage

361

Lastpage

365

Abstract

A large number of workflow systems are in existence, offering various orchestration capabilities. How to make full use of the legacy workflow capabilities in a grid environment is of importance for saving investments as well as enabling dynamic collaboration and boundary-crossing problem solving. In this paper, we propose a concept model for leveraging and aggregating legacy workflow capabilities. The model contains a general way to describe capabilities of legacy workflow systems, two main abstractions for transparent workflow capability usage and an abstract way for boundary-crossing workflow definition. The presented is evaluated with a case study.

Keywords

grid computing; investment; problem solving; boundary-crossing problem solving; dynamic collaboration; grid environment; leveraging legacy workflow capabilities; saving investments; transparent workflow capability; Application virtualization; Collaborative work; Computers; Engines; Grid computing; Investments; Middleware; Problem-solving; Prototypes; Scheduling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Grid and Cooperative Computing, 2007. GCC 2007. Sixth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Los Alamitos, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2871-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GCC.2007.81

Filename

4293802