To programmatically discover and interact with services in ubiquitous computing environments, an application needs to solve two problems: (1) is it semantically meaningful to inte...
—Despite many technology advances, the limited computing power of sensors encumber them from taking part in service-oriented architectures. In recent years, the sensornetworking ...
Identity federation is a powerful scheme that links accounts of users maintained distinctly by different business partners. The concept of network identity is a driver for accele...
Mathematical software libraries provide many computational services. Mathematical operators properties can be used to combine several services in order to provide more complex one...
WSDL web services are built around the request-reply framework, requiring service invocation to be bundled together with all relevant data in a single message. Inefficiency become...