Background: For ecological studies, it is crucial to count on adequate descriptions of the environments and samples being studied. Such a description must be done in terms of thei...
The increased use of electronic service has invented a new term Service-Oriented Architecture. In a typical distributed environment consisting of many independent devices and servi...
Web services paradigm is allowing applications to electronically interact with one another over the Internet. The business process execution language (BPEL) takes this ion to a hig...
Efficient schemes for deploying and maintaining widearea services and accessing such services are essential if the Internet is to sustain itself as the communication medium for b...
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 ...