Building on abstract reference models, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has established standards for storing, discovering, and processing geographical information. These stan...
Service-orientation and object-oriented design are common practice in the field of business application development. Business process execution languages help to facilitate the orc...
The planning and management of supply chains require properly specifying the participating members and the relationships among them. Construction supply chains usually consist of n...
Jack C. P. Cheng, Kincho H. Law, Hans Bjornsson, A...
Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of expressing preferences among nonfunctional properties of services in a Web service architecture. In such a context, semantic and non-f...
—Popular web services and applications such as Google Apps, DropBox, and Go.Pc introduce a wasteful imbalance of processing resources. Each host operated by a provider serves hun...