This paper describes the design of a scripting language aimed at expressing task (unit of computation) composition and inter-task dependencies of distributed applications whose ex...
An increasing number of distributed applications are being constructed by composing them out of existing applications. The resulting applications can be very complex in structure,...
Through the recent emergence of joint resource and network virtualization, dynamic composition and provisioning of time-limited and isolated virtual infrastructures is now possible...
Connectors and connector wrappers explicitly specify the protocol of interaction among components and afford the reusable application of extra-functional behaviors, such as reliabi...
Common to Grid services, Web Services, software agents and software components is that they are independently built and provide services aimed for composition. A key issue is wheth...