Nearly all components that comprise modern information technology, such as Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) environments,...
In todays increasingly dynamic and competitive business environment, organizations strive to leverage their information resources to gain and sustain competitive advantage. Deci...
Resource brokering in Grids is nowadays handled by resource brokers that require detailed knowledge of the state of the resources that they broker. In business settings, surrender...
Self-Healing and self-optimizing service based applications are important steps towards the self-organizing Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). Self-Organizing SOAs replace serv...
The globalization of businesses and the cooperation between organizations have brought on an ever increased need for providing support for distributed collaborations. In this pape...