Abstract. To direct automated Web service composition, it is compelling to provide a template, workflow or scaffolding that dictates the ways in which services can be composed. I...
The fundamental challenge of e-commerce is enabling companies to do business with one another across a network, despite different business processes and computer systems. Traditio...
The focus of this work is on the estimation of quality of service (QoS) parameters seen by an application. Our proposal is based on end-to-end active measurements and statistical ...
Increasingly, scalable distributed applications are being constructed by integrating reusable components spanning multiple administrative domains. Dynamic composition and deployme...
To create acceptable levels of Quality of Service (QoS), designers need to be able to predict users’ behaviour in response to different levels of QoS. However, predicting behavio...