Advances in the areas of embedded systems, computing, and networking are leading to an infrastructure composed of millions of heterogeneous devices. These devices will not simply ...
1 Data distribution and replication in distributed systems require special purpose middleware tools for accessing replicated data. Data Grids, special forms of a systems distribute...
Services Computing is emerging as a new discipline. The acceptance of web services technology stems from the fact that services enable easy integration and interoperation of enter...
With the development and maturity of ServiceOriented Architectures (SOA) to support business-tobusiness transactions, organizations are implementing Web services to expose their p...
The information management requirements in systems based on Web Service Architecture principles include both the management of large amounts of relatively static services and assoc...