Business processes, the next-generation workflows, have attracted considerable research interest in the last 15 years. More recently, several XML-based languages have been propose...
The World Wide Web is playing a major role in reducing business costs and in providing convenience to users. Digital Libraries capitalize on this technology to distribute document...
Although Web prefetching is regarded as an effective method to improve client access performance, the associated overhead prevents it from being widely deployed. Specifically, a ...
—The ability of a web service to provide low-latency access to its contents is constrained by available network bandwidth. It is important for the service to manage available ban...
Data-driven Web services, viewed broadly as interactive systems available on the Web for users and programs, provide the backbone for increasingly complex Web applications. While ...