Special issue: second international workshop on workflow management in service and cloud computing (WMSC2010)

摘要

This special issue of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience contains selected high-quality papers from the Second International Workshop on Workflow Management in Service and Cloud Computing (WMSC2010) that was held on 11-13 December 2010 in Hong Kong [1]. The WMSC workshop series aims to provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of research and development trends regarding workflow support in service and cloud environments. WMSC2010 attracted many international attendants, allowing deep discussion and the exchange of ideas and results related to ongoing research among attendants. Following ICWM2009 on 4 May 4 2009 in Geneva, Switzerland, WaGe2008 on 25 May 2008 in Kunming China and WaGe2007 on 17 August 2007 in Urumqi China; WMSC2010 continues to discuss workflow management in service and cloud environments from different perspectives and areas in order to tackle different potentials for further research and development.