The development of new services through the integration of existing ones has gained a considerable momentum as a means to create and streamline business-to-business collaborations...
Boualem Benatallah, Quan Z. Sheng, Anne H. H. Ngu,...
Abstract. In addition to publishing composite services as reusable services, compositions can also be reused by applying them to orchestrate different component services. To do so...
For several different reasons, such as changes in the business or technological environment, the configuration of a system may need to evolve during execution. Support for such ev...
An important characteristic of ubiquitous computing is that the computational services in our environment are envisioned to be far more interconnectable than today. This means it ...
Reducing power consumption has become a major challenge in the design and operation of today's computer systems. This chapter describes different techniques addressing this c...