A distributed calculus is proposed for describing networks of services. We model service interaction through a call-by-property invocation mechanism, by specifying the security co...
Massimo Bartoletti, Pierpaolo Degano, Gian Luigi F...
Service level agreements (SLAs) impose many nonfunctional requirements on services. Business analysts specify and check these requirements in business process models using tools s...
Hua Xiao, Brian Chan, Ying Zou, Jay W. Benayon, Bi...
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers keep extending with new features the computing infrastructures they offer on a pay per use basis. In this paper we explore reasons and...
Many object-oriented frameworks exhibit a high density of design pattern applications. Usually, there are more instances in a framework than there are abstract classes. Yet, only ...
Dirk Riehle, Roger Brudermann, Thomas R. Gross, Ka...
In this paper, we address the problem of providing a service broker, which offers to prospective users a composite service with a range of different Quality of Service (QoS) class...
Marco Abundo, Valeria Cardellini, Francesco Lo Pre...