Abstract. QoS-based service selection mechanisms will play an essential role in service-oriented architectures, as e-Business applications want to use services that most accurately...
Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) have recently emerged as a new promising paradigm for supporting distributed computing. Web services, as well as integration-packages relying ...
The widespread adoption of automated vehicle location systems (AVL) and automatic passenger counters (APC) in the transit industry has opened new venues in operations and system mo...
Enabling the ambient intelligence vision means that consumers will be provided with universal and immediate access to available content and services, together with ways of effectiv...
: Web Services can be used to automate business activities that span multiple enterprises over the Internet. Such business activities require a coordination protocol to reach consi...
Wenbing Zhao, Firat Kart, Louise E. Moser, P. M. M...