Web services (WS) provide a technology for integrating applications over the Internet. This paper proposes a multi-agent conceptual model of WS and an agent-oriented modelling and...
Replication of objects, processes and components is essential for building reliable distributed systems. However, maintaining replica consistency in the presence of nondeterminism...
Wenbing Zhao, Louise E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith
The latest version of Real-Time CORBA defines a Distributable Thread primitive to support real-time computing in a dynamic distributed environment. However, this standard does not...
Jiangyin Zhang, Lisa Cingiser DiPippo, Victor Fay ...
A major advantage of service-based computing technology is the ability to enable rapid formation of large-scale distributed systems by composing massively available services to ac...
Stephen S. Yau, Yisheng Yao, Zhaoji Chen, Luping Z...
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services (WS) have received significant attention recently. Even though WS are based on open standards and support software interoperab...
This paper presents a framework for verifying the access control requirements of real-time application systems such as workflow management systems and active databases. The tempor...
Basit Shafiq, Ammar Masood, James Joshi, Arif Ghaf...
Software metrics can be used to objectively quantify the quality of software components and systems, alleviating quality and risk concerns and raising assurance in component-based...
The single-path software/hardware architecture has been conceived with the goal to support real-time task execution with highly predictable timing. By using WCET-oriented programm...
In emerging e-commerce applications, time constrained information sharing between different systems is becoming a common phenomenon. A flexible and efficient mechanism is needed t...