The Design of Cloud Workflow Systems / SpringerBriefs in Computer Science (PDF)

journals. He is currently a first-year PhD candidate in Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, supervised by Prof. Yun Yang and A/Prof. Jinjun Chen. He¿s research interests include parallel and distributed computing, cloud and grid computing, workflow technologies and data management in distributed computing environment.

Dahai Cao received his master degree in software engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2005. He is currently a PhD student in Swinburne University Centre for Computing and Engineering Software Systems, Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include cloud-based large-scale workflow management systems, adaptive workflow management and cloud computing. received his master degree in software engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2005. He is currently a PhD student in Swinburne University Centre for Computing and Engineering Software Systems, Melbourne, Australia. His research interests include cloud-based large-scale workflow management systems, adaptive workflow management and cloud computing.

Qiang He received his first Ph. D. degree in information and communication technology from Swinburne University of Technology (SUT), Australia, in 2009 and his second Ph. D. degree in computer science and engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China, in 2010. He is now a research fellow at SUT. His research interests include services computing, cloud computing, P2P system, workflow management and agent technologies.

Jinjun Chen received his PhD degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia in 2007. He is currently an associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. His research interests include Scientific workflow management andapplications, workflow management and applications in Web service or SOC environments, workflow management and applications in grid (service)/cloud computing environments, software verification and validation in workflow systems, QoS and resource scheduling in distributed computing systems such as cloud computing, service oriented computing, semantics and knowledge management, cloud computing.

Yun Yang received a Master of Engineering degree from The University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 1987, and a PhD degree from The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, in 1992, all in computer science. He is currently a full Professor in the Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Prior to joining Swinburne as an Associate Professor in late 1999, he was a Lecture and Senior Lecturer at Deakin University during 1996-1999. Before that, he was a Research Scientist at DSTC - Cooperative Research Centre for Distributed Systems Technology during 1993-1996. He also worked at Beihang University in China during 1987-1988. He has published more about 200 papers on journals and refereed conferences. His research interests include software engineering; p2p, grid and cloud computing; workflow systems; service-oriented computing; Internet computing applications; and CSCW.