Abstract. While past research in service oriented computing has focused on the fairly static functional description and the operators of services the dynamic and flexible compositi...
Recent advances in storage and communication technologies have spurred a strong interest in Video-on-Demand (VOD) services. Providing the customers of VOD servers with time of serv...
A virtual organization (VO) is a dynamic collection of entities (individuals, enterprises, and information resources) collaborating on some computational activity. VOs are an emer...
Abstract. Compatibility of behavior, i.e. the correct ordering of messages, is one of the core aspects for the interaction between services as parts of an inter-organizational busi...
A prominent trend in the software industry in the late 1990s was the development of the application service providing business model. Application service providers (ASP)1 offer th...