%0 Journal Article %T SCW+: A Service Oriented Framework for Cloud Workflow Systems %J Scientia Iranica %I Sharif University of Technology %Z 1026-3098 %A Torkashvan, Milad %A Haghighi, Hassan %D 2016 %\ 06/01/2016 %V 23 %N 3 %P 1195-1216 %! SCW+: A Service Oriented Framework for Cloud Workflow Systems %K Cloud Workflow %K Cloud Computing %K Cloud Framework %R 10.24200/sci.2016.3889 %X Cloud workflow is a special type of cloud computing systems which mainly concentrates on workflow management. One of the major issues with cloud workflow systems is automatic multi-cloud workflow management. This paper proposes a service oriented framework for cloud workflow management which integrates heterogeneous multi-cloud platforms to provide integrated applications for users by minimizing the human intervention as far as possible. The proposed framework involves a language to define some basic entities for environments and uses these definitions to integrate applications and services in a cloud workflow. This framework has been already implemented. In addition, its main operations have been evaluated by a case study and the results show that the framework works properly as a cloud integrator, and the framework main activities are done automatically with a reasonable performance. %U https://scientiairanica.sharif.edu/article_3889_8cceb2d1e87bb47f7c693c10bd159504.pdf