The proliferation of heterogeneous devices and diverse networking technologies demands flexible models to guarantee the quality-of-service(QoS) at the application session level, ...
Today, most personal mobile devices (e.g. cell phones and PDAs) are multimedia-enabled and support a variety of concurrently running applications such as audio/video players, word...
Abstract. While Web Services ensure interoperability and extensibility for networked applications, they also complicate the deployment of highly collaborative systems, such as virt...
Qi Huang, Daniel A. Freedman, Ymir Vigfusson, Ken ...
Systems are increasingly expected to adapt themselves to changing requirements and environmental situations with minimum user interactions. A challenge for self-adaptation is the i...
This paper is concerned with the application of Web services to distributed, cross-organizational business processes. In this scenario, it is crucial to answer the following questi...