There is a growing demand for web applications to provide fair service to the highly concurrent requests. In this paper, we present an approach to addressing this requirement. Bas...
Abstract. Business process models describe workflows by a set of actions together with their ordering. When implementing business processes within a service-oriented architecture,...
Abstract. The paper provides a conceptual framework for designing and executing business processes using semantic Web services. We envision a world in which a designer defines a ...
Internet traffic is bursty and network servers are often overloaded with surprising events or abnormal client request patterns. This paper studies a load shedding mechanism called...
Virtual worlds may be enabling technologies for the next generation of business models, practices and innovations in service. We situate our research within the field of service s...