Integrating service description, discovery, and invocation functionalities presents several fundamental problems in the management of web services and is a basic problem for compo...
Anna Sibirtseva, Zhongnan Shen, Jianwen Su, Fulian...
— Efficient video-on-demand (VoD) is a highly desired service for media and telecom providers. VoD allows subscribers to view any item in a large media catalog nearly-instantane...
A database system contains base data items which record and model a physical, real world environment. For better decision support, base data items are summarized and correlated to...
Named constants are used heavily in operating systems code, both as internal flags and in interactions with devices. Decision making within an operating system thus critically de...
Automation and integration of business processes are at the heart of contemporary enterprise systems. In the pursuit of this goal, process automation technology is employed at vary...