The Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS) is the de facto standard for the composition of web services into complex, valued-added workflows in both indus...
In most web sites, web-based applications (such as web portals, emarketplaces, search engines), and in the file systems of personal computers, a wide variety of schemas (such as t...
Paolo Bouquet, Luciano Serafini, Stefano Zanobini,...
This paper provides an overview of MediaDART, a framework for building online services for distributing and sharing digital media. Inspired by the participative model of Web 2.0, ...
—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...
This paper is concerned with compositional specification of services using UML 2 collaborations, activity and interaction diagrams. It addresses the problem of realizability: give...