Future Web applications will increasingly require real-time data from the physical world collected by a myriad of sensors and actuators. Currently, integration of such devices requ...
In the past, many attempts have been made to improve the interoperability between different Web-based information systems. In most approaches the remaining problems are still twof...
The Globus Toolkit (GT) has been developed since the late 1990s to support the development of service-oriented distributed computing applications and infrastructures. Core GT compo...
The number of endusers using the Internet increases on the inside and outside of offices. Enduser-initiative development of applications has become important for automation of the...
An increasing number of distributed applications are being constructed by composing them out of existing applications. The resulting applications can be very complex in structure,...