Service discovery has been recognised as an important aspect of service oriented computing. This is even more the case when developing service centric systems in which software sy...
The development of new services through the integration of existing ones has gained a considerable momentum as a means to create and streamline business-to-business collaborations...
Boualem Benatallah, Quan Z. Sheng, Anne H. H. Ngu,...
Businesses increasingly provide and use services, applying formal (Web) services technology for the description, composition, and management of software as services. At the same t...
In this paper we investigate the utilization of nondedicated, opportunistic resources in a desktop environment to provide statistical assurances to a class of QoS sensitive, soft ...
We describe a software architecture for storage services in computational grid environments. Based upon a lightweight message-passing paradigm, the architecture enables the provis...