The last few years, users want various services that fit their needs and preferences. Many services are provided at network edges and are increasing in number. The open framework i...
Widely deployed multimedia services are expected to accommodate clients in a highly heterogeneous environment. Clients of a multimedia service may vary greatly in processing and c...
—Service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides the flexibility of dynamically composing business processes in enterprise computing. However, they must be enhanced to support real...
Remote service invocation via HTTP and XML promises to become an important component of the Internet infrastructure. Work is ongoing in the W3C XML Protocol Working Group to define...
Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati,...
—The FRIENDS system developed at LAAS-CNRS is a metalevel architecture providing libraries of metaobjects for fault tolerance, secure communication, and group-based distributed a...