The Web Service Resource Framework (WSRF) was announced in January 2004 as a new way for manipulating "stateful resources" to perform grid computing tasks using Web Serv...
In this paper, we describe the middleware that has evolved from our attempt to capture user descriptions of policies controlling devices and services from natural language. Descri...
Bill Keller, Tim Owen, Ian Wakeman, Julie Weeds, D...
Due to lack of the infrastructure, open peer-to-peer architecture, shared wireless medium, limited resource constraints and highly dynamic topology, MANETs (Mobile Adhoc Networks) ...
Kamaljit I. Lakhtaria, Bhaskar N. Patel, Satish G....
Service discovery and matchmaking in a distributed environment has been an active research issue since at least the mid 1990s. Previous work on matchmaking has typically presented...
Simone A. Ludwig, Omer F. Rana, William Naylor, Ju...
The discovery of services that are appropriate for answering a given question is a crucial task in the open and distributed environment of web services for geographic information. ...