When automating work, it is often desirable to compensate completed work by undoing the work done by one or more activities. In the context of workflow, where compensation actions...
“W3QL: A Query Language for the WWW”, published in 1995, presented a language with several distinctive features. Employing existing indexes as access paths, it allowed the sel...
Many companies have found out the hard way that successful ecommerce requires more than a flashy web presence. Existing business processes must be seamlessly integrated with the n...
Monique H. Jansen-Vullers, Mariska Netjes, Hajo A....
Tracing resource usage by Grid users is of utmost importance — especially in the context of large-scale scientific collaborations such as within the High Energy Physics (HEP) c...
Rosario M. Piro, Michele Pace, Antonia Ghiselli, A...
This paper discusses the performance of the Transmission Control Protocol under two aspects: First, the future Internet will provide some kind of service differentiation and bandw...