Abstract. Web services have become the predominant paradigm for the development of distributed software systems. Web services provide the means to modularize software in a way that...
While the Grid and Web Services have helped us support heterogeneous resource access through the use of service oriented architectures, they have not addressed the issue of hetero...
—Vehicle dispatching consists of allocating real-time service requests to a fleet of moving vehicles. In this paper, each vehicle is associated with a vector of attribute values...
—Providing data as a service has not only fostered the access to data from anywhere at anytime but also reduced the cost of investment. However, data is often associated with var...