Embracing service-oriented architectures in the context of large systems, such as the Web, rises a set of new and challenging issues: increased size and load in terms of users and...
Intelligent, server-side adaptation of multimedia resources is becoming increasingly important and challenging for two reasons. First, the market continuously brings up new mobile...
Current IT application domains such as web services and autonomic computing call for highly flexible systems, able to automatically adapt to changing operational environments as w...
Loris Penserini, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi, John My...
This paper presents a process modeling language known as the GridPML for the composition of Grid Services. The GridPML is an XML-based language that supports basic control flow co...
Hua Ma, Susan Darling Urban, Yang Xiao, Suzanne W....
Business Process Management (BPM) is often a key component of the business change. Business rules, whether embedded within BPM or on their own, have begun playing an ever-increasi...