— There are many grid-based applications where a timely response to an important event is needed. Often such response can require a significant computation and possibly communic...
In this paper, we introduce an XML-based Hierarchical QoS Markup Language, called HQML, to enhance distributed multimedia applications on the World Wide Web (WWW) with Quality of ...
Service composition refers to the aggregation of services to build complex applications to achieve client requirements. It is an important challenge to make it possible for users ...
Shalil Majithia, Matthew S. Shields, Ian J. Taylor...
The big challenge related to the contemporary research on ubiquitous and pervasive computing is that of seamless integration. For the next generation of ubiquitous and distributed...
With the pressing in-time-market towards customized services, software product lines (SPL) are increasingly characterizing most of software landscape. SPL are mainly structured th...