Reflective middleware provides an effective way to support adaptation in distributed systems. However, as distributed systems become increasingly complex, certain drawbacks of the...
Bholanathsingh Surajbali, Geoff Coulson, Phil Gree...
: Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) have been established as an IT strategy to support the on demand goal of business agility. Web services standards and their implementations ...
This paper surveys a variety of subsystems designed to be the building blocks from which sophisticated infrastructures for ubiquitous computing are assembled. Our experience shows...
Martin Modahl, Bikash Agarwalla, Gregory D. Abowd,...
In this paper we introduce the iTask system: a set of combinators to specify work flows in a pure functional language at a very high level of abstraction. Work flow systems are au...
Rinus Plasmeijer, Peter Achten, Pieter W. M. Koopm...
It is not uncommon for modern systems to be composed of a variety of interacting services, running across multiple machines in such a way that most developers do not really unders...