There has usually been a clean separation between networks and the applications that use them. Applications send packets over a simple socket API; the network delivers them. Howev...
Kok-Kiong Yap, Te-Yuan Huang, Ben Dodson, Monica S...
Dependable distributed systems are difficult to build. This is particularly true if they have dependability requirements that change during the execution of an application, and are...
Michel Cukier, Jennifer Ren, Chetan Sabnis, David ...
Abstract. Interoperability remains a fundamental challenge when connecting heterogeneous systems which encounter and spontaneously communicate with one another in pervasive computi...
Amel Bennaceur, Gordon S. Blair, Franck Chauvel, G...
Next-generation software engineering is envisioned as a computational discipline that complements human capability through automated computation of software behavior and propertie...
Ali Mili, Tim Daly, Mark Pleszkoch, Stacy J. Prowe...
Current WSDL-based description specifies only the operation signatures and locations of Web services. It is widely recognized that a richer description is needed. WS-Security, WS-...
Qianxiang Wang, Min Li, Na Meng, Yonggang Liu, Hon...