In order to guarantee certain levels of QoS, a Web application needs to adapt itself to different execution contexts. However, because of the lack of coordination support in Web p...
Supporting security in distributed systems is becoming more important with the ongoing work in grids, distributed middlewares and web services. Decentralised security architecture...
Web Services have experienced great interest during the last years as they were expected to play a key role as enablers of seamless application-to-application integration both wit...
An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a standards-based integration platform that combines messaging, web services, data transformation, and intelligent routing in a highly distribut...
In many applications involving composite Web services, one or more component services may become unavailable. This presents us with the problem of identifying other components tha...