@conference {93,
	title = {Programming for dependability in a service-based grid},
	booktitle = {3rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2003 (CCGrid 2003)},
	year = {2003},
	month = {May},
	pages = {164 - 171},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	address = {Tokyo, Japan},
	abstract = {Service-based Grid infrastructures emphasize service composition rather than sharing of low level resources. The idea is to build Grid applications out of computational services provided by the different sites of the Grid. Recent developments in the area of Web services have strengthened this idea by standardizing procedures like service description, publication and invocation. What is still missing is the infrastructure necessary to support the complete life cycle of applications running on service based Grids, i.e., suitable programming paradigms, execution infrastructure, and the ability to monitor and control such computations. Moreover, once computations are made of composable services, dependability becomes a key issue that needs to be addressed by the infrastructure as it cannot be addressed separately by each individual service. To address these concerns, we have developed the BioOpera Grid computing platform. BioOpera is a process support system for dependable cluster computing that has been extended with additional functionality to provide adequate support for service-based Grids. In this paper we describe how BioOpera can be used to develop, execute, and administer highly dependable computations over service-based Grids.},
	keywords = {BioOpera, distributed business process execution engines, grid computing, Web services},
	isbn = {0-7695-1919-9},
	doi = {10.1109/CCGRID.2003.1199365},
	url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epic03/wrapper.htm?arnumber=1199365},
	author = {Win Bausch and Cesare Pautasso and Gustavo Alonso}
}
@conference {92,
	title = {BioOpera: cluster-aware computing},
	booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER 2002)},
	year = {2002},
	month = {September},
	pages = {99 - 106},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	address = {Chicago, IL, USA},
	abstract = {In this paper we present BioOpera, an extensible process support system for cluster-aware computing. It features an intuitive way to specify computations, as well as improved support for running them over a cluster providing monitoring, persistence, fault tolerance and interaction capabilities without sacrificing efficiency and scalability.},
	keywords = {BioOpera, cluster computing, scientific workflow management},
	doi = {10.1109/CLUSTR.2002.1137734},
	url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epic03/wrapper.htm?arnumber=1137734},
	author = {Win Bausch and Cesare Pautasso and Reto Schaeppi and Gustavo Alonso}
}
@conference {91,
	title = {Dependable computing in virtual laboratories},
	booktitle = {17th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2001)},
	year = {2001},
	month = {April},
	pages = {235 - 242},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	address = {Heidelberg, Germany},
	abstract = {Many scientific disciplines are shifting from in vitro to in silico research as more physical processes and natural phenomena are examined in a computer (in silico) instead of being observed (in vitro). In many of these virtual laboratories, the computations involved are very complex and long lived. Currently, users are required to manually handle almost all aspects of such computations, including their dependability. Not surprisingly, this is a major bottleneck and a significant source of inefficiencies. To address this issue, we have developed BioOpera, an extensible process support management system for virtual laboratories. The authors briefly discuss the architecture and functionality of BioOpera and show how it can be used to efficiently manage long lived computations},
	keywords = {bioinformatics, BioOpera, scientific workflow management, virtual laboratories},
	doi = {10.1109/ICDE.2001.914834},
	url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/lpdocs/epic03/wrapper.htm?arnumber=914834},
	author = {Gustavo Alonso and Win Bausch and Cesare Pautasso and Ari Kahn}
}
