Charging of services in a distributed system will become more and more important for systems which are utilized commercially. Such an important distributed system exists in form o...
Burkhard Stiller, Jan Gerke, Placi Flury, Peter Re...
Rapid advancement of communication technology has changed the landscape of computing. New models of computing, such as business-on-demand, Web services, peer-to-peer networks, and...
The use of web services as the basis for grid middleware has allowed scientists to wrap legacy applications as services in order to provide their capabilities to grid users. Howev...
e is used to compose Grid applications from abstract application components that are mapped against available Grid services by the component framework at runtime. key words: compon...
Abstract. We define a language for Web services contracts as a parallelfree fragment of ccs and we study a natural notion of compliance between clients and services in terms of th...