An active XML (AXML) document contains tags representing calls to Web services. Therefore, retrieving its contents consists in materializing its data elements by invoking the embe...
XML is currently being used as the message syntax for Web services. To enable small mobile devices to use Web services, this XML use must not be too resource-consuming. Due to seve...
Jaakko Kangasharju, Sasu Tarkoma, Tancred Lindholm
The demand for real-time database services has been increasing recently. Examples include sensor data fusion, stock trading, decision support, web information services, and data-i...
Smartcards can be seen as service providing entities that implement a secure, tamper-proof storage and offer computational resources which make them ideally suited for a variety o...
—Grid computing is becoming more and more attractive for coordinating large-scale heterogeneous resource sharing and problem solving. Of particular interest for effective Grid co...