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R ( 0 < R < 1) is first generated. Afterwards, R is compared with the predefined<br />

fixed confidence threshold FT ( 0 < FT < 1)<br />

, if R is larger than FT , then a p is<br />

selected as a h<strong>and</strong>ling point. Otherwise,<br />

a p is not selected as a h<strong>and</strong>ling point. In<br />

RA , the fixed confidence threshold FT actually decides how much the portion <strong>of</strong><br />

checkpoints will be selected as h<strong>and</strong>ling points. For example, if FT is set as 0.9,<br />

then a total <strong>of</strong> 1-0.9=0.1, i.e. 10% <strong>of</strong> the checkpoints will be selected as violation<br />

h<strong>and</strong>ling points while the others will be skipped without temporal violation h<strong>and</strong>ling.<br />

As shown in Table 7.2, the experiment settings are as follows. The process<br />

definitions are generated based on the pulsar searching example presented in Section<br />

1.2 <strong>and</strong> the attribute settings are based historic data for the running <strong>of</strong> scientific<br />

workflow instances [56]. Meanwhile, the experiment settings are extended<br />

deliberately for the purpose <strong>of</strong> exploring a much larger parameter space to evaluate<br />

our strategy in general s<strong>of</strong>tware applications <strong>of</strong> similar nature in distributed high<br />

performance computing environments.<br />

Table 7.2 Experimental Settings<br />

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