—The Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) leverages ice abstraction to enable the development of modular, loose-coupled and distributed applications. In order to use such an archi...
IT organizations are facing significant business and technical challenges today. On the business realm, companies are increasingly outsourcing their IT operations to specialized I...
Santhosh Kumaran, Tian Chao, Kamal Bhattacharya, P...
This paper, the first in a series of four, presents the conceptual design of a subsystem with integrative function based on a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), named Geographic...
Fernando Maciel Lima e Sousa, Valdevino Siqueira C...
Today, the means for attaining competitive advantage with information technology (IT) has shifted from efficiently managing the organization's operations to discovering ways ...
Amelia Maurizio, James Sager, Peter Jones, Gail Co...
Data centers constructed as clusters of inexpensive machines have compelling cost-performance benefits, but developing services to run on them can be challenging. This paper repo...