Continuous queries are used to monitor changes to time varying data and to provide results useful for online decision making. Typically a user desires to obtain the value of some ...
Abstract. We claim that user preferences are a key component of effective Web service composition, and one that has largely been ignored. In this paper we propose a means of speci...
Shirin Sohrabi, Nataliya Prokoshyna, Sheila A. McI...
Socio-technical developments in computing have resulted in the emergence of innovative mobile systems which exploit the information available on the Internet to optimize the perfo...
Pravin Pawar, Bert-Jan van Beijnum, Hermie Hermens...
Abstract—In the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud computing market, spot instances refer to virtual servers that are rented via an auction. Spot instances allow IaaS provi...
This paper presents a loosely coupled service-composition paradigm. This paradigm employs a distributed data flow that differs markedly from centralized information flow adopted b...
David Liu, Jun Peng, Kincho H. Law, Gio Wiederhold