Current Web services standards enable publishing service descriptions and finding services by matching requested and published descriptions based on syntactic criteria such as me...
Internet traffic is bursty and network servers are often overloaded with surprising events or abnormal client request patterns. This paper studies a load shedding mechanism called...
Over the last few years several process-based web service composition languages have emerged, such as BPEL4WS and BPML. These languages define the composition on the basis of a pr...
—Web Services are interfaces that describe a collection of operations that are network-accessible through standardized web protocols. When a required operation is not found, seve...
Abstract. As Web service-based system integration recently became the mainstream approach to create composite services, the dependability of such systems becomes more and more cruc...