Loose coupling is often quoted as a desirable property of systems architectures. One of the main goals of building systems using Web technologies is to achieve loose coupling. How...
Reliability is a key issue of the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) which is widely employed in critical domains such as e-commerce and e-government. Redundancy-based fault tole...
In this tutorial paper we present quantitative methods for analysing Web Services with the goal of understanding how they will perform under increased demand, or when asked to serv...
Electronic contracts describe inter-organizational business processes in terms of supply and consumption of electronic services (commonly Web services). In a given contract domain,...
Marcelo Fantinato, Itana Maria de Souza Gimenes, M...
One area of the web services architecture yet to be standardised is that of fault tolerance for services. At the same time, WS-BPEL is moving from a de facto standard to an OASIS ...