On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules
Communications of the ACM
An Emerging Architecture Enabling Grid Based Application Service Provision
EDOC '03 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Enterprise Distributed Object Computing
Orchestration and Workflow in a mobile Grid environment
GCCW '06 Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing Workshops
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We describe the business-oriented architectural principles of the EC FP7 project "BREIN" for service-based computing. The architecture is founded on principles of how real businesses interact to mutual benefit, and we show how these can be applied to SOA and Grid computing. We present building blocks that can be composed in many ways to produce different value systems and supply chains for the provision of computing services over the Internet. We also introduce the complementary BREIN VO concept, which is centric to, and managed by, a main contractor who bears the responsibility for the whole VO. The BREIN VO has an execution lifecycle for the creation and operation of the VO, and we have related this to an application-focused workflow involving steps that provide real end-user value. We show how this can be applied to an engineering simulation application and how the workflow can be adapted should the need arise.