Abstract. QoS-based service selection mechanisms will play an essential role in service-oriented architectures, as e-Business applications want to use services that most accurately...
Many network applications that require Quality-ofService QoS support, such as transmission of digital voice and video, tolerate a certain level of service degradation. In this s...
In Service Oriented Architecture, each application is ofgned as a set of abstract services, which defines its functions. A concrete service(s) is selected at runtime for tract ser...
File transfer acts an increasing role in digital TV studios and especially for their interconnections. Using adequate file formats to exchange data presents several advantages: lo...
A model was introduced in [Fraga97] for integrating replication techniques in heterogeneous systems. The model adopts a reflective structure based on the meta-object approach [10]...
Lau Cheuk Lung, Joni da Silva Fraga, Carlos Mazier...