With the advent of Web services and orchestration specifications like BPEL it is possible to define workflows on an Internet-scale. In the health-care domain highly structured and ...
We discuss the suitability of service-oriented computing for the automotive domain. We present a formal high-level language in which complex automotive activities can be modelled ...
Over the years, the notion of transactions has become synonymous with providing fault-tolerance, reliability and robustness to database systems. However, challenges arise when we ...
—It is essential to process real-time data service requests such as stock quotes and trade transactions in a timely manner using fresh data, which represent the current real worl...
Replication on multiple nodes is an effective way to improve the availability in the P2P or grid environment. It is difficult to determine how many replicas can fulfill the user r...