Collaborating users need to move terabytes of data among their sites, often involving multiple protocols. This process is very fragile and involves considerable human involvement ...
Based on the FOCUS theory of distributed systems (see [Broy, Stølen 01]) that are composed of interacting components we introduce a formal model of services and layered architectu...
When enacting a web service orchestration defined using the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) we observed various safety property violations. This surprised us considerab...
David S. Rosenblum, Howard Foster, Jeff Kramer, Je...
We introduce the Free Factory, a platform for deploying data-intensive web services using small clusters of commodity hardware and free software. Independently administered virtua...
Alexander Wait Zaranek, Tom Clegg, Ward Vandewege,...
The capacity of today's network links, along with the heterogeneity of their traffic, is rapidly growing, more than the workstation’s processing power. This makes the task ...