Data management is growing in complexity as largescale applications take advantage of the loosely coupled resources brought together by grid middleware and by abundant storage cap...
Web Services are designed for loosely coupled systems, which means that in many cases it is not possible to synchronously upgrade all peers of a Web Service scenario. Instead, Web ...
— Industry is more and more interested in executing business functions that span multiple applications. This demands high-levels of interoperability and a more flexible and adapt...
The Web Services framework, since it leverages the Service Oriented Architecture model, enables the development of applications that are loosely coupled and easier to manage. A We...
Google Maps and Google Earth are very popular web mapping services but they are not open and not OGC-compliant. The question arises why this is not the case. One reason is that com...