Legacy applications are still widely spread. If a need to change deployment or update its functionality arises, it becomes difficult to estimate the performance impact of such modi...
Steffen Becker, Michael Hauck, Mircea Trifu, Klaus...
Abstract. Inconsistent contexts are death-wounds which usually result in contextaware applications' incongruous behaviors and users' perplexed feelings, therefore the ben...
Yingyi Bu, Shaxun Chen, Jun Li, XianPing Tao, Jian...
Context-aware Web services are currently emerging as an important technology for building innovative contextaware applications. Unfortunately, context-aware Web services are still...
Quan Z. Sheng, Sam Pohlenz, Jian Yu, Hoi S. Wong, ...
A current trend in the web services community is to define coordination mechanisms to execute collaborative tasks involving multiple organizations. Following this tendency, this w...
Cluster-based servers can substantially increase performance when nodes cooperate to globally manage resources. However, in this paper we show that cooperation results in a substa...