—Web Services are the most famous implementation of service oriented architectures that has brought some challenging research issues. One of these is the composition, i.e. the ca...
In this paper, we consider the problem of composing a set of web services, where the requirements are specified in terms of the input and output messages of the composite workfl...
As web service technology matures there is growing interest in exploiting workflow techniques to coordinate web services. Bioinformaticians are a user community who combine web re...
Thomas M. Oinn, Matthew Addis, Justin Ferris, Darr...
The need to allow threads to abort an attempt to acquire a lock (sometimes called a timeout) is an interesting new requirement driven by state-of-the-art database applications wit...
Multilevel security policies aim at only confidentiality assurance, with less consideration on integrity assurance and weakness in expressing channel control policies. Besides, the...