Construction activities take place in what can be called a dynamic virtual organization (VO). VOs require a secure, reliable, scalable information infrastructure that allows collab...
The ever growing size and complexity of both technical and business systems requires efficient software engineering approaches to keep development cost under control while still ...
— Supporting business services through Web service compositions (WSC) as part of service-oriented architectures (SOA) involves business performance monitoring requirements. Their...
Real-time applications with security requirements are emerging in various areas including government, education, and business. The security sensitive real-time applications can ta...
The client-server model has been successfully used to support a wide variety of families of services in the context of distributed systems. However, its server-centric nature make...