In the context of Service Oriented Computing, contracts are descriptions of the externally observable behaviour of services. Given a group of collaborating services, their contract...
Modern distributed information systems handle increasingly critical data and computation, but there is no systematic way to assess whether a given part of the system can be entrus...
Partha Pratim Pal, Franklin Webber, Michael Atighe...
There is no clear distinction between service-oriented systems (SOS) and component-based systems (CBS). However, there are several characteristics that could let one consider SOS ...
This paper reports on work in progress to produce a unified Quality of Service (QoS) ontology This ontology must be applicable to the main scenarios currently identified such as Q...