—The FRIENDS system developed at LAAS-CNRS is a metalevel architecture providing libraries of metaobjects for fault tolerance, secure communication, and group-based distributed a...
Skyline queries have attracted considerable attention over the last few years, mainly due to their ability to return interesting objects without the need for user-defined scoring f...
— This paper presents a requirements analysis and a solution approach to representing workflow processes conforming to the Wf-XML/ASAP standard proposal in a UDDI registry. Wf-X...
Workflow management systems are increasingly used to assist the automation of business processes that involve the exchange of documents, information, or task execution results. Re...
Today, large-scale web services run on complex systems, spanning multiple data centers and content distribution networks, with performance depending on diverse factors in end syst...
Zhichun Li, Ming Zhang, Zhaosheng Zhu, Yan Chen, A...