— Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is a promising means to integrate heterogeneous systems. Services from different providers can be integrated into a composite service regardles...
Service discovery has been recognised as an important aspect of service oriented computing. This is even more the case when developing service centric systems in which software sy...
A key element for outsourcing critical parts of a business process in Service Oriented Architectures are Service Level Agreements (SLAs). They build the key element to move from so...
Abstract--Nowadays, novel applications, such as personalized e-commerce services, call for cooperation across enterprise boundaries. Service-Oriented-Architecture (SOA) forms a sol...
While the Grid and Web Services have helped us support heterogeneous resource access through the use of service oriented architectures, they have not addressed the issue of hetero...