The rapid growth of the Web has made it possible to build collaborative applications on an unprecedented scale. However, the request-reply interaction model of HTTP limits the rang...
Abstract. The Web and Grid services frameworks provide a promising infrastructure for cross-organizational use of online services. The use of services in large-scale and cross-orga...
Henner Gimpel, Heiko Ludwig, Asit Dan, Robert Kear...
The cost savings and novel features associated with Voice over IP (VoIP) are driving its adoption by service providers. Such a transition however can successfully happen only if t...
Yair Amir, Claudiu Danilov, Stuart Goose, David He...
Main requirement of recent computing environments, like mobile and then ubiquitous computing, is to adapt applications to context. On the other hand, access control generally trus...
Vincent Hourdin, Jean-Yves Tigli, Stephane Lavirot...
When having repeated interactions with a service provider, a service consumer might desire guarantees on the delivery of the service. These guarantees involve both functional and n...