: Web services serve as a leading technology platform for web-based data-centric environments providing flexibility of loose coupling, message-based communication. Interest in more...
—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...
As the number and variety of Web- and network-based applications continues to increase, so does the need for flexible communication protocols and services to support them. Traditi...
Bobby Krupczak, Mostafa H. Ammar, Kenneth L. Calve...
Integrating complex enterprise systems is challenging and reliability and performance of the integrated systems can be problematic when using typical solutions of distributed tran...
John C. Grundy, Jun Bai, John Blackham, John G. Ho...
This paper describes a service-oriented approach for the integration of third-party external applications and resources into an existing open source eLearning environment. We detai...