Abstract. We claim that user preferences are a key component of effective Web service composition, and one that has largely been ignored. In this paper we propose a means of speci...
Shirin Sohrabi, Nataliya Prokoshyna, Sheila A. McI...
Development and deployment via components offers the possibility of prolific software reuse. However, to achieve this potential in a component-rich environment, it is necessary to...
Existing tools require end-user programmers (EUPs) to write regular expressions ("regexps") or even scripts to validate textual inputs, which is slow and error-prone. We...
Parallel programming generally requires awareness of the granularity and communication requirements of parallel subtasks, since without precaution, the overhead for parameter and r...
Abstract. Web services are increasingly being used in business critical environments, enabling uniform access to services provided by distinct parties. In these environments, an op...