Service level agreements (SLAs), or contracts, have an important role in web services. These contracts define the obligations and rights between the provider of a web service and i...
Sidney Rosario, Albert Benveniste, Stefan Haar, Cl...
The power of Web Service (WS) technology lies in the fact that it establishes a common, vendor-neutral platform for integrating distributed computing applications, in intranets as ...
Daniel Elenius, Grit Denker, David Martin, Fred Gi...
Abstract. Digital libraries are increasingly relying on distributed services to support increasingly complex tasks such as retrieval or preservation. While there is a growing body ...
Christoph Becker, Hannes Kulovits, Michael Kraxner...
This paper sketches the design, and presents a scalability analysis and evaluation of NLS, a scalable naming and location service. NLS resolves textual names to the nearest of a s...
Abstract Asynchronous invocations are an important functionality in the context of distributed object frameworks, because in many situations clients should not block during remote ...