Wide-area networks provide an easy access to many different distributed and heterogeneous data sources. The development of automated operating tools is still complex, particularly...
Jean-Paul Arcangeli, Sebastien Leriche, Marc Pante...
There is a growing trend to deploy web services in pervasive computing environments. Implementing web services on networked, embedded devices leads to a set of challenges, includi...
WSDL web services are built around the request-reply framework, requiring service invocation to be bundled together with all relevant data in a single message. Inefficiency become...
The web-services stack of standards is designed to support the reuse and interoperation of software components on the web. A critical step, to that end, is service discovery, i.e....
Abstract. The World Wide Web has provided users with the opportunity to access from any computer the largest set of information ever existing. Researchers have analyzed how such us...