Abstract: Nowadays, in the markets of broadband access services, traditional contracts are of "static" type. Customers buy the right to use a specific amount of resources...
Sergios Soursos, Costas Courcoubetis, Richard R. W...
The Semantic Grid aims at enhancing Grid architectures by knowledge engineering techniques. The service notion is central in this approach. Service-level agreements, called contrac...
Web Services are entailing a major shift of perspective in software engineering: software is used and not owned, and operation happens on machines that are out of the user control....
Marcello Bruno, Gerardo Canfora, Massimiliano Di P...
Abstract. The recent approval of the EU Services Directive is fostering the Internet of Services (IoS) and will promote the emergence of marketplaces for business and real-world se...
Josef Spillner, Matthias Winkler, Sandro Reichert,...
Service Oriented Architectures draw heavily on techniques for reusing and assembling off-the-shelf software components. While powerful, this programming practice is not without a ...
Giovanni Bernardi, Michele Bugliesi, Damiano Maced...