Abstract. The emergence of large-scale online collaboration requires current information systems to be apprehended as service ensembles comprising human and software service entiti...
: This paper investigates the use of the Business Process Execution Language for Web services (BPEL4WS/ BPEL) for managing scientific workflows. The complexity, unpredictability an...
Adaptive security is based on the observation that the security requirements of a system or service heavily depend on the environment in which they operate and should therefore be...
The Java language and platform have been considered by many as natural candidate for creating grid systems. The platform-independent runtime environment, safe and high-level langu...
"Software as a service" approach has become a reality since efforts of both industry and research focused on service integration on the web. It would be possible to see ...