: Manufacturing systems are changing its structure and organisation. Supply chain are evolving to more coupled organisations, like virtual enterprises, though maintaining the singl...
A holy grail of component-based software engineering is "write-once, reuse everywhere". However, in modern distributed, component-based systems supporting emerging appli...
Eric Wohlstadter, Stefan Tai, Thomas A. Mikalsen, ...
As the Grid moves towards adopting a service-oriented architecture built on Web services, coupling between processes will rely on secure, reliable, and transacted messages and be s...
Zhuoan Jiao, Jasmin L. Wason, Wenbin Song, Fenglia...
Service-based systems have many applications, such as collaborative research and development, e-business, health care, military applications, and homeland security. In dynamic ser...
Stephen S. Yau, Haishan Gong, Dazhi Huang, Wei Gao...
The client-server model has been successfully used to support a wide variety of families of services in the context of distributed systems. However, its server-centric nature make...