The ability to automatically compose web services, and to monitor their execution, is an essential step to substantially decrease time and costs in the development, integration, a...
Marco Pistore, Fabio Barbon, Piergiorgio Bertoli, ...
Information in today’s enterprises commonly resides in a variety of heterogeneous data sources, including relational databases, web services, files, packaged applications, and c...
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the use of a new concept in component communication, expressed by the channel based coordination language called ρέω, in the coordina...
Theophilos A. Limniotes, George A. Papadopoulos, F...
This paper presents specialized code generation techniques and runtime optimizations for developing light-weight XML Web services for embedded devices. The optimizations are imple...
Being E-commerce one of the most critical Internet application, it is fundamental to employ technologies which guarantee not only secure transactions but also an adequate quality ...
Mario Bravetti, Roberto Lucchi, Gianluigi Zavattar...
Growing numbers of pervasive devices are gaining access to the Internet. However, much of the existing rich multimedia content cannot be handled by mobile client devices with limi...
Information retrieval (IR) functions serve a critical role in many digital library systems. There are numerous mature IR algorithms that have been implemented and it will be a was...
- This article presents a framework for a XML based search system composed by three layers: data layer, logic layer and presentation layer. In all three layers XML related technolo...
Pedro Almeida, Joaquim Sousa Pinto, Joaquim Arnald...
In this paper, we propose FECT, a new modelling framework for describing and composing heterogenous Web services to satisfy emergent requirements. In FECT, a three-dimension descri...
The vision of Semantic Web services promises a network of interoperable Web services over different sources. A major challenge to the realization of this vision is the lack of aut...
Wensheng Wu, AnHai Doan, Clement T. Yu, Weiyi Meng