Abstract. We develop an abstract operational model for configuration management under service-oriented computing. This semantics is based on a graph-based representation of the con...
Web services are self-contained, modular units of application logic which provide business functionality to other applications via Internet connections. Several models have been u...
Web transactions may be complex, composed of several sub-transactions accessing different resources including legacy systems. They may also have complex semantics. To deal with co...
Virtualization provides a vehicle to manage the available resources and enhance their utilization in network computing. System dynamics requires virtual machines be distributed an...
An important emerging requirement for computing systems is the ability to adapt at run time, taking advantage of local computing devices, and coping with dynamically changing reso...