Speculative service implies that a client's request for a document is serviced by sending, in addition to the document requested, a number of other documents (or pointers the...
This paper describes an exploratory field study on the adoption of Application Service Provisioning (ASP) in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Rooted in Merton’s Motiva...
Though the service of shared virtual worlds is an active area of research, little effort has been made to optimize such systems for urban world spaces. Tracking the motion, action...
Abstract. Dependable distributed applications require flexible infrastructure support for controlled redundancy, replication, and recovery of components and services. However, mos...
: The possibility of a direct link between business workflows and the supporting application system is often seen as the critical strength of the SOA paradigm. Though in practice, ...