Service orientation is a means for integrating across diverse systems. Each resource, whether an application, system, or trading partner, can be accessed as a service. The resultin...
Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Niels Lohmann, Peter Mass...
With the rapid development of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Service-Oriented Computing (SOC), the Quality of Service (QoS) is more and more essential than before. There ...
Supporting security in distributed systems is becoming more important with the ongoing work in grids, distributed middlewares and web services. Decentralised security architecture...
: Manufacturing systems are changing its structure and organisation. Supply chain are evolving to more coupled organisations, like virtual enterprises, though maintaining the singl...
— The trend in Grid computing towards more data intensive applications, accessing more and more relational databases and requiring advanced integration of secondhand and publicly...