— The dynamic composition of systems of networked appliances, or virtual devices, enables users to generate complex strong specific systems. Current prominent MANET-based composi...
Commitment management is a key issue in service-provisioning in the context of virtual organisations (VOs). A service-provider — which may be a single agent acting within an orga...
Web services have emerged as a de facto standard for encapsulating services within or across organization boundaries. Various proposals have been made to compose Web services into...
Service Oriented Computing (SOC) is a programming paradigm aiming at characterising Service Networks. Services are entities waiting for clients requests and they often result from ...
Replication is a technique commonly used to increase the availability of services in distributed systems, including grid and web services. While replication is relatively easy for...
Xianan Zhang, Flavio Junqueira, Matti A. Hiltunen,...