Currently, the interest in Ambient Intelligence (or AmI) has increased exponentially due to the widespread use of portable devices. Users demand more and more functionality from t...
Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) are constantly gaining ground for the provision of business to business as well as user-centric services, mainly in the form of Web Services ...
George N. Prezerakos, Nikolaos D. Tselikas, Giovan...
Software systems are increasingly being built as compositions of reusable artifacts (components, frameworks, toolkits, plug-ins, APIs, etc) that have non-trivial usage constraints...
The layered architecture of middleware platforms (such as CORBA, SOAP, J2EE) is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, layers provide services such as demarshaling, session management...