Complex applications in many areas, including scientific computations and business-related web services, are created from collections of components to form workflows. In many case...
While the IP unicast service has proven successful, extending end-to-end adaptation to multicast has been a difficult problem. Unlike the unicast case, multicast protocols must su...
Construction activities take place in what can be called a dynamic virtual organization (VO). VOs require a secure, reliable, scalable information infrastructure that allows collab...
Enhancing the service-oriented architecture paradigm with semantic components is a new field of research and goal of many ongoing projects. The results lead to more powerful web a...
Abstract. We discuss a case study for the hospital scenario where workflow model components are distributed across various computers or devices (e.g. mobile phones, PDAs, sensors, ...