In this work, the problem of scheduling packets with a group as opposed to an individual deadline is considered. Packets of the same group are supposed to belong in the same appli...
Workflows in the service industry sometimes need to deal with multi-fold increases in customer demand within a short period of time. Such spikes in service demand may be caused by...
The Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL) has emerged as a standard for specifying and executing processes. It is supported by vendors such as IBM and Microso...
Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Marlon Dumas, Arthur H. M...
Abstract. Web Services offer a widespread standard for making services available on the Internet. Of particular interest is the possibility of composing existing distributed servi...
Existing distributed publish/subscribe systems (DPSS) offer loosely coupled and easy to deploy content-based stream delivery services to a large number of users. However, the lack ...