The architecture of a software system has a significant impact on its quality of service (QoS) as measured by several performance metrics such as execution time, availability, th...
The diffusion of service-oriented computing is today heavily influencing many software development and research activities. Despite this, service-oriented computing is a relative...
Massimiliano Colombo, Elisabetta Di Nitto, Massimi...
Business Processes for Web Services (BPEL4WS) are the new paradigms for lightweight enterprise integration. They cross organizational boundaries and are provided by entities that s...
This paper introduces a new mediation mechanism into agent negotiations. The negotiation mechanism takes a supply-chain perspective to the construction of software services, attem...
Jung-Ching Chen, Nicolas E. Gold, Nikolay Mehandji...
Many organizations provide information technology services, either to external or internal customers. They maintain software, operate information systems, manage and maintain work...