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font-family:Arial'>Hi</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>In my current research I have to modulate a simulation where
I have thousands of input items and for each item I have the following
workflow.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Task1 ->Task2->Task3->Task4</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>But Task2 of item K depends of the completion of Task1 from
item K-1 and Task3 of item K depends of the completion of Task4 from item K-1</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I am interested to use modeling based on Workflows and I am
also interested to support task execution as a Web Service.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I am tried to modeling using Kepler with Web Service actor
but I think it isn’t suitable to describe an workflow with thousand of
instances (huge graphical boxes) and worst I don’t know the best way to
describe task execution with dependencies from previous execution?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Can someone advise me about what is the best pattern to this
case?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I appreciate in advance some advising.</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>Many thanks</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Luis Assuncao</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>Email: lass@isel.ipl.pt</span></font></p>
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