Service-based Grid infrastructures emphasize service composition rather than sharing of low level resources. The idea is to build Grid applications out of computational services p...
Today, large-scale web services run on complex systems, spanning multiple data centers and content distribution networks, with performance depending on diverse factors in end syst...
Zhichun Li, Ming Zhang, Zhaosheng Zhu, Yan Chen, A...
The EU Services Directive aims at easing the burdens for the EU's citizens to open up new businesses by providing a single-point-of-contact for the complete business lifecycle...
Web service-based workflow management systems have garnered considerable attention for automating and scheduling dependent operations. Such systems often support user preferences,...
David Chiu, Sagar Deshpande, Gagan Agrawal, Rongxi...
Web services offer a number of valuable features towards supporting the development of open distributed systems, built out of the composition of autonomous services. Nonetheless, ...