Web service-based workflow management systems have garnered considerable attention for automating and scheduling dependent operations. Such systems often support user preferences,...
David Chiu, Sagar Deshpande, Gagan Agrawal, Rongxi...
Ad-hoc data processing has proven to be a critical paradigm for Internet companies processing large volumes of unstructured data. However, the emergence of cloud-based computing, ...
Service providers as we know them nowadays are the always-on “static” web service providers, that aim at Five9 availability (99.999%). Formal, or de-facto, standards, such as ...
When web services are used to coalesce around the distributed applications, one prominent solution to manage and coordinate web services is the use of process management. Many res...
The most important recent development in Grid systems is the adoption of the Web services model as a basic architecture for Grid services. The result is called the Open Grid Servi...