The application designers can usually define their own "virtual environments" by selecting the appropriate computing resources required, or reuse and compose existing en...
—Interoperability remains a challenging and growing problem within distributed systems. A range of heterogeneous network and middleware protocols which cannot interact with one a...
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) enables organizations to transform their existing IT infrastructure into a more flexible business process platform.. In this architecture, deco...
Sebastian Wieczorek, Andreas Roth, Alin Stefanescu...
Many real-world tasks can be decomposed into pipelines of sequential operations (where subtasks may themselves be composed of one or more pipelines). JGram is a framework enabling...
Rahul Sukthankar, Antoine Brusseau, Ray Pelletier,...
We study the access control integration problem for web services. Organizations frequently use many services, each with its own access control policies, that must interoperate whi...