To be able to utilize the generative potential of future networks for service composition, the attributes of services and networks must be appropriately formalized, stored and mad...
Several recently proposed infrastructures permit client applications to interact with distributed network-accessible services by simply ”plugging in” into a substrate that pro...
Anca-Andreea Ivan, Josh Harman, Michael Allen, Vij...
—In the majority of today’s IT organizations, Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are an important means for underpinning IT service provisioning by clearly defined Quality of Ser...
Web services received significant attention recently and several important web service platforms such as .NET are now available. The testing and evaluation of web services are imp...
Wei-Tek Tsai, Raymond A. Paul, Weiwei Song, Zhibin...
Abstract. A major challenge of Ambient Intelligence lies in building middleware that can ease service implementation through allowing the application developer to emphasize only th...