As the Internet, intranets and other wide-area open networks grow, novel techniques for building distributed systems, notably mobile agents, are attracting increasing attention. T...
Nobukazu Yoshioka, Shinichi Honiden, Anthony Finke...
Availability of a wide variety of Web services over the Internet offers opportunities of providing new value added services built by composing them out of existing ones. Service c...
Simon J. Woodman, Doug J. Palmer, Santosh K. Shriv...
A major contributing factor to the complexity of creating and evolving distributed systems is the tangling of middleware-specific functionality with core business functionality in...
Abstract. This paper focuses on how to model and build composite web services from already existing services. We build on the experience in workflow modeling and see if the princip...
The era of distributed systems is upon us. Middlewarespecific concerns, and especially the distribution concern, which is the core of any middleware-mediated application, are addr...
The ODP computational viewpoint describes the functionality of a system and its environment, in terms of a configuration of objects which interact at interfaces. Computational obj...
Modeling is a technique used extensively in industry to define software systems, the UML being the most prominent example. With the increased use of modeling techniques has come t...
To focus the comparison of languages for model checking and transformation on criteria that matter in practical development, there is an urgent need for more, and more realistic, ...
Multi-viewpoint approaches allow stakeholders to design a system from stakeholder-specific viewpoints. By this, a separation of concerns is achieved, which makes designs more mana...