For the majority of front-end e-business systems, the assumption of a coherent and homogeneous set of interfaces is highly unrealistic. Problems start in the back-end, with system...
Giacomo Piccinelli, Wolfgang Emmerich, Christian Z...
Web services are rapidly emerging as the reference paradigm for the interaction and coordination of distributed business processes. In several research papers we have shown how ad...
Michele Trainotti, Marco Pistore, Gaetano Calabres...
: This paper investigates the use of the Business Process Execution Language for Web services (BPEL4WS/ BPEL) for managing scientific workflows. The complexity, unpredictability an...
The centralised management of distributed computing infrastructures presents a number of considerable challenges, not least of which is the effective monitoring of physical resour...
Increasingly, network operators do not directly operate computers on their network, yet are responsible for assessing network vulnerabilities to ensure compliance with policies ab...
Genevieve Bartlett, John S. Heidemann, Christos Pa...