—In many existing location-based services, a service provider becomes aware of the location of its customers and can, maybe inadvertently, leak this information to unauthorized e...
Service Level Agreements (SLA) include quality of service (QoS) constraints and bounds that have to be honoured by the service provider. To maximise the Service Provider revenue wh...
Mike J. Boniface, Stephen C. Phillips, Alfonso S&a...
The diffusion of service oriented architectures introduces the need for novel testing approaches. On the one side, testing must be able to identify failures in the functionality ...
Massimiliano Di Penta, Gerardo Canfora, Gianpiero ...
Abstract. While the idea of database outsourcing is becoming increasingly popular, the associated security risks still prevent many potential users from deploying it. In particular...
AAIs – Infrastructures for Authentication and Authorisation provide services for service providers on the Internet. Especially if combined with an attribute infrastructure these...
In both E-Commerce (EC) and Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) environments, sellers or service providers interact with customers or service clients for services or transactions. Fr...
Yan Wang 0002, Duncan S. Wong, Kwei-Jay Lin, Vijay...
The appropriate deployment of web service operations at the service provider site plays a critical role in the efficient provision of services to clients. In this paper, we assume...
WSDL web services are built around the request-reply framework, requiring service invocation to be bundled together with all relevant data in a single message. Inefficiency become...
Resource allocation is a fundamental but challenging problem due to the complexity of cluster computing systems. In enterprise service computing, resource allocation is often asso...
Service providers (SP) business goals require an efficient management of their computational resources in order to perform provisioning, deployment, execution and adaptation whic...