Service granularity generally refers to the size of a service. The fact that services should be large-sized or coarse-grained is often postulated as a fundamental design principle ...
Systems based on Service-Oriented Architecture are called service-based systems (SBS), and comprise of computing services offered by various organizations. Users of SBS often requ...
The Semantic Grid aims at enhancing Grid architectures by knowledge engineering techniques. The service notion is central in this approach. Service-level agreements, called contrac...
Interoperability is a multifaceted problem caused by issues surpassing those of technological incompatibilities. The real interoperability challenges are stemming from various sour...
— The dynamic composition of systems of networked appliances, or virtual devices, in MANETs, enables users to generate, on-the-fly, complex strong specific systems. Current work ...