To make the World Wide Web machine-understandable there is a strong demand both for languages describing metadata and for languages querying metadata. The Resource Description Fram...
Flavius Frasincar, Geert-Jan Houben, Richard Vdovj...
Web transactions may be complex, composed of several sub-transactions accessing different resources including legacy systems. They may also have complex semantics. To deal with co...
Web caching is an important technique for accelerating web applications and reducing the load on the web server and the network through local cache accesses. As in the traditional...
The majority of today’s Internet-based services are generally not concerned about the level of Quality of Service (QoS) presented to their users. For many such services, however...
Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) middleware increasingly offers not only functional support for standard interfaces, but also the ability to optimize their resource consumption pat...