Abstract The Internet provides a ubiquitous, standards-based substrate for global communications of all kinds. Rapid advances are now being made in agreeing protocols and machine-p...
Emerging Web services standards enable the development of large-scale applications in open environments. In particular, they enable services to be dynamically bound. However, curr...
In the next generation Internet, the network should not only be considered as a communication medium, but also as an endless source of services available to the end-systems. These ...
Mathematical software libraries provide many computational services. Mathematical operators properties can be used to combine several services in order to provide more complex one...
Scalability is said to be one of the major advantages brought by the cloud paradigm and, more specifically, the one that makes it different to an “advanced outsourcing” solu...
Luis M. Vaquero, Luis Rodero-Merino, Rajkumar Buyy...