This paper provides three contributions to the study of functional integration of distributed enterprise systems. First, we describe the challenges associated with functionally in...
Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Douglas C. Schmidt, ...
SOABench is a framework for the automatic generation, execution and analysis of testbeds for evaluating the performance of service-oriented middleware. Testbeds can be characteriz...
Domenico Bianculli, Walter Binder, Mauro Luigi Dra...
: Semantic Web Services (SWS) aim at the automated discovery, selection and orchestration of Web services on the basis of comprehensive, machine-interpretable semantic descriptions...
Stefan Dietze, Alessio Gugliotta, John Domingue, M...
—In this paper we extend our previous work on soft probabilistic contracts for QoS management, from the particular case of “response time”, to general QoS parameters. Our stu...
Due to the large success of wireless networks and portable devices, the pervasive computing paradigm is becoming a reality. One of the most challenging objectives to be achieved in...
Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Nikolaos Georgantas, Valé...