As third party logistic services become popular, the role of software agents increases in importance in terms of the logistics scheduling of buyers and sellers. To support many mo...
Wide-area service replication is becoming increasingly common, with the emergence of new operational models such as content delivery networks and computational grids. This paper d...
Bogdan C. Popescu, Bruno Crispo, Andrew S. Tanenba...
Background: In biological and medical domain, the use of web services made the data and computation functionality accessible in a unified manner, which helped automate the data pi...
Wei Tan, Ravi K. Madduri, Aleksandra Nenadic, Stia...
through suitable abstractions and tools is a viable option for improving servicebased computations. T he past few years have witnessed end users' increasing involve ment in th...
The threat of commoditization poses a real challenge for service providers. While the end-to-end principle is often paraphrased as “dumb network, smart end-systems”, the origi...