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COMPONENT III<br />

Temporal Violation H<strong>and</strong>ling<br />

Chapter 7<br />

Temporal Violation H<strong>and</strong>ling Point<br />

Selection<br />

In scientific cloud workflow systems, temporal violation h<strong>and</strong>ling points are those<br />

workflow activity points where temporal violation h<strong>and</strong>ling strategies are triggered<br />

to tackle detected temporal violations. The existing work on temporal verification<br />

adopts the philosophy <strong>of</strong> temporal violation h<strong>and</strong>ling required whenever a temporal<br />

violation is detected. Therefore, a checkpoint is regarded the same as a temporal<br />

violation h<strong>and</strong>ling point. However, the probability <strong>of</strong> self-recovery which utilises the<br />

time redundancy <strong>of</strong> subsequent workflow activities to automatically compensate for<br />

the time deficit is ignored, <strong>and</strong> hence would impose a high temporal violation<br />

h<strong>and</strong>ling cost. To address such a problem, this thesis presents a novel adaptive<br />

temporal violation h<strong>and</strong>ling point selection strategy where the probability <strong>of</strong> selfrecovery<br />

is effectively utilised in temporal violation h<strong>and</strong>ling point selection to<br />

avoid unnecessary h<strong>and</strong>ling for temporal violations.<br />

This chapter is organised as follows. Section 7.1 presents the specifically related<br />

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