In spite of significant work on real-time content distribution, providing consistent service quality across the Internet remains a challenge. Multicast applications further exace...
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services (WS) have received significant attention recently. Even though WS are based on open standards and support software interoperab...
Common to Grid services, Web Services, software agents and software components is that they are independently built and provide services aimed for composition. A key issue is wheth...
A wide range of security services may be available to applications in a heterogeneous computer network environment. Resource Management Systems (RMSs) responsible for assigning co...
Web services are a logical evolution of software components and middleware. Based on a comparison of Web services with middleware and components we come up with the statement that...