Grid workflows specification and verification

  • Authors:
  • P. Kurdel;J. Sebestyénová

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia;Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia

  • Venue:
  • WSEAS Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Grids are being adopted and developed in several scientific disciplines that deal with large-scale collaboration, massive distributed data, and distributed computing problems. The service orchestration is a problem of making multiple services coordinate themselves and communicate in an orderly fashion so as to accomplish a task more complex than the single tasks provided by the individual composing services. Composition is devoted to the aim of connecting services in a collaborative fashion. A Grid workflow system is a type of application-level Grid middleware that is supposed to support modelling, redesign and execution of large-scale processes. A grid workflow can be represented by a grid workflow graph, where nodes correspond to activities and edges correspond to dependencies between activities, called flows. Verification is usually based on an extension of a kind of formal method. Grid workflow verification and validation must be conducted so that we can identify any violations of the correctness in workflow specification and consequently remove them in time.