A service-oriented application is composed of multiple web services to fulfill complex functionality that cannot be provided by individual web service. The combination of services ...
WS-* specifications cover a variety of issues ranging from security and reliability to transaction support in web services. However, these specifications do not address web servic...
The recent evolution of Internet, driven by the Web services technology, is extending the role of the Web from a support of information interaction to a middleware for B2B interac...
—In this paper we extend our previous work on soft probabilistic contracts for QoS management, from the particular case of “response time”, to general QoS parameters. Our stu...
The growing infrastructure for Web Services assumes a "programmer in the loop" that hardcodes the connections between Web Services and directly programs Web Service comp...
Massimo Paolucci, Katia P. Sycara, Takahiro Kawamu...