Business Processes for Web Services are the new paradigm for the lightweight integration of business from different enterprises. Whereas the security and access control policies ...
The WS-BPEL specification focuses on business processes the activities of which are assumed to be interactions with Web services. However, WS-BPEL processes go beyond the orchestr...
—More and more current software systems rely on non trivial coordination logic for combining autonomous services typically running on different platforms and often owned by diffe...
Clock-related operations are one of the many sources of replica non-determinism and of replica inconsistency in fault-tolerant distributed systems. In passive replication, if the ...
Wenbing Zhao, Louise E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith
—Autonomic computing is a paradigm that aims at reducing administrative overhead by providing autonomic managers to make applications self-managing. In order to better deal with ...
Ahmad Al-Shishtawy, Vladimir Vlassov, Per Brand, S...