Interactive applications such as email, calendar, and maps are migrating from local desktop machines to data centers due to the many advantages offered by such a computing environ...
The globalization of software development helps to reduce business cost by outsourcing software design and development tasks. However, it also poses new challenges on the collabor...
Jing Dong, Sheng Yang, Dushyant S. Lad, Yongtao Su...
Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of expressing preferences among nonfunctional properties of services in a Web service architecture. In such a context, semantic and non-f...
As the use of the World Wide Web becomes more pervasive within our society, businesses and institutions are required to migrate a wide range of services to the web. Difficulties a...
Janet Lavery, Cornelia Boldyreff, Bin Ling, Colin ...
The Application Service Provider (ASP) is a pivotal point in the organization of information systems, since it brings up a new paradigm: “make, buy or rent”. An ASP is a compa...