In today’s businesses we can see the trend that serviceoriented architectures (SOA) represent the main paradigm for IT infrastructures. In this setting, a software offers its fu...
Ad-hoc and situational applications for personal use will gain more and more traction in the work support for knowledge workers (KWers). Personal information is a key element in th...
—The need for integration of all types of client and server applications that were not initially designed to interoperate is gaining popularity. One of the reasons for this popul...
Anne H. H. Ngu, Michael Pierre Carlson, Quan Z. Sh...
Abstract--In a web service composition, an electronic contract (e-contract) regulates how the services participating in the composition should behave, including the restrictions th...
Ensuring transactional behavior of business processes and web service compositions is an essential issue in the area of serviceoriented computing. Transactions in this context may ...