TAYLOR , Ian

WORKS'14 was the ninth workshop in the WORKS series. The call for papers attracted thirteen submissions from Europe, the USA and Russia. After peer reviews by the program committee, ten of the papers were accepted, covering a variety of topics: workflows scheduling, large-scale workflows optimization, languages, enactors, and support...

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WORKS'13 was the eighth workshop in the WORKS series. The call for papers attracted sixteen submissions from Asia, Europe, North and South America. The quality of the papers, peer reviewed by the program committee, were exceptional this year and overall thirteen of the papers were accepted, covering a variety of topics, including provenance and...

WORKS'11 was the sixth issue in the WORKS workshop series. The call for papers attracted 23 submissions from Europe, North and South America. The program committee accepted 15 papers that cover a variety of topics, ranging from large-scale execution management of workflows (scalability, fault-tolerance, performance, optimization, etc) to...

WORKS'12 was the seventh issue in the WORKS workshop series. The call for papers attracted 14 submissions from Europe, North and South America. The program committee accepted 12 papers that cover a variety of topics, including data-driven workflows modeling, workflow systems scalability, performance and fault-tolerance, execution monitoring,...

This year is special for the WORKS series as this corresponds to the tenth issue of this scientific event dedicated to scientific workflows. The call for papers attracted thirteen submissions from Europe, the USA, India and Mexico. After peer reviews by the program committee, nine of the papers were accepted, covering a variety of topics:...

This special issue and our editorial celebrate 10 years of progress with data-intensive or scientific workflows. There have been very substantial advances in the representation of workflows and in the engineering of workflow management systems (WMS). The creation and refinement stages are now well supported, with a significant improvement in...

Today there exist a wide variety of scientific workflow management systems, each designed to fulfill the needs of a certain scientific community. Unfortunately, once a workflow application has been designed in one particular system it becomes very hard to share it with users working with different systems. Portability of workflows and...

In this paper, we leverage the previous work on the SHIWA bundling format and expand on this specification in order to facilitate workflow execution within a multi-workflow environment. We introduce a scalable and robust execution pool environment that supports workflows consisting of sub-workflows built upon a multitude of different workflow...