: Grid Services became a widely used technology for building service oriented applications. The Web Service Resource Framework (WSRF) is the current standard used for building such...
The need for process support in the context of web services has triggered the development of many languages, systems, and standards. Industry has been developing software solutions...
A modern server system must deliver a complex set of obligations towards its users. We study the concept of roles as autonomous encapsulations of a set of promises. Using virtuali...
Basic message processing tasks, such as wellformedness checking and grammar validation, can be off-loaded from the service providers' own infrastructures. To enable effective...
Web services paradigm is allowing applications to electronically interact with one another over the Internet. The business process execution language (BPEL) takes this ion to a hig...