Software services are being promoted as the next big step forward in software engineering.. Inevitably, both service vendor and service client programs will require maintenance. W...
Web services have been widely employed to allow interoperability among applications and/or technologies. However, the standard technologies and protocols which provide the foundat...
Traditional web service discovery is strongly related to the use of service directories. Especially in the case of mobile web services, where both service requestors and providers...
One of the major problems in building large-scale distributed systems is to anticipate the performance of the eventual solution before it has been built. This problem is especiall...
Yan (Jenny) Liu, Ian Gorton, Anna Liu, Shiping Che...
The pervasive and mobile computing scenario is characterized by the high heterogeneity of devices used to access services, and by frequent changes in the user's context. In t...