To help users cope with information overload, Selective Dissemination of Information SDI will increasingly become an important tool in wide area information systems. In an SDI ser...
: This paper investigates the use of the Business Process Execution Language for Web services (BPEL4WS/ BPEL) for managing scientific workflows. The complexity, unpredictability an...
This paper is concerned with reducing communication costs when executing distributed user tasks in a sensor network. We take a service-oriented abstraction of sensor networks, whe...
: Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) have been established as an IT strategy to support the on demand goal of business agility. Web services standards and their implementations ...
Mobile applications are required to operate in environments characterised by change. More specifically, the availability of resources and services may change significantly during a...
Christos Efstratiou, Keith Cheverst, Nigel Davies,...