Multi-threaded programming is difficult and error prone. It is easy to make a mistake in synchronization that produces a data race, yet it can be extremely hard to locate this mi...
Stefan Savage, Michael Burrows, Greg Nelson, Patri...
Background: Web Services and Workflow Management Systems can support creation and deployment of network systems, able to automate data analysis and retrieval processes in biomedic...
Based on the framework of service-oriented architecture (SOA), complex distributed systems can be dynamically and automatically composed by integrating distributed Web services pr...
—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...
Efficient management of RDF data is an important factor in realizing the Semantic Web vision. The existing approaches store RDF data based on triples instead of a relation model. I...