Abstract: Several global developments such as the growing demand for bioenergy, limits in the availability of water and diminishing production resources as well as sector-wide cris...
Richard J. Lehmann, Robert Reiche, Melanie Fritz, ...
Despite that simulation possesses an establish background and offers tremendous promise for designing and analyzing complex production systems, manufacturing industry has been les...
Data-Providing (DP) services allow query-like access to organizations' data via web services. The invocation of a DP service results in the execution of a query over data sour...
Like most software products, protocols are continuously enhanced and new protocols are developed. But especially new protocols of the transport layer can not be utilized widely ea...
1 Distributed and collaborative applications are rapidly converging towards the adoption of a computing paradigm based on service-oriented architectures, according to which an appl...