For the composition of Web services non-functional characteristics are commonly considered criteria for finding and selecting available services. Our work focuses on a mechanism ...
Michael C. Jaeger, Gregor Rojec-Goldmann, Gero M&u...
Current federated systems deploy cost-based query optimization mechanisms; i.e., the optimizer selects a global query plan with the lowest cost to execute. Thus, cost functions in...
Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, ...
The Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS) is the de facto standard for the composition of web services into complex, valued-added workflows in both indus...
The paper introduces Self-Replicating Objects (SROs), a new nt programming abstraction. An SRO is implemented and used much like an ordinary .NET object and can expose arbitrary us...
Service discovery and its automation are some of the key features that a large scale, open distributed system must provide so that clients and users may take advantage of shared re...