The past few decades have witnessed a chronic and widening imbalance among processor bandwidth, disk capacity, and access speed of disk. According to Amdhal's law, the perfor...
Over the past decade, there has been a lot of work in developing middleware for integrating and automating enterprise business processes. Today, with the growth in e-commerce and ...
This paper presents a formal notation for modelling asynchronous web services composition, using context and coordination mechanisms. Our notation specifies the messages that can b...
According to a survey of the University of Berkeley [6], about 5 Exabytes of new information has been created in 2002. This information explosion affects also the database volumes...
Abstract The Internet provides a ubiquitous, standards-based substrate for global communications of all kinds. Rapid advances are now being made in agreeing protocols and machine-p...