Web Services are entailing a major shift of perspective in software engineering: software is used and not owned, and operation happens on machines that are out of the user control....
Marcello Bruno, Gerardo Canfora, Massimiliano Di P...
In open systems, independent services exist in administrative domains outside that of the consumers of those services. Current standards exist to create management interfaces to a...
Abstract. Virtual Private Networks are a popular mechanism for building complex network infrastructures. Such infrastructures are usually accompanied by strict administrative restr...
The Service Oriented Architecture enables the development of flexible large scale-applications in open environments by dynamically combining Web services. Nevertheless, current te...
Abstract. A self-managed system is both self-assembling and selfhealing. Service-oriented Computing (SoC) architectures, such as a Web Services Architecture (WS-A) illustrate a hig...