A current trend in the web services community is to define coordination mechanisms to execute collaborative tasks involving multiple organizations. Following this tendency, this w...
Abstract. As Web service-based system integration recently became the mainstream approach to create composite services, the dependability of such systems becomes more and more cruc...
This paper proposes a novel approach for managing IP-based services and applications, reflecting the authors’ experience with the IBM Global Network. It describes how one can e...
We present a Web service composition approach that relies on three selection criteria: execution cost, execution time, and location of provider hosts. A Web service is an accessibl...
We have developed a system to process database queries over composed data providing web services. The queries are transformed into execution plans containing an operator that invok...