Over the past several years, with the advent of the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) [10] and the Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF) [14], Service-Oriented Architectures...
— The trend in Grid computing towards more data intensive applications, accessing more and more relational databases and requiring advanced integration of secondhand and publicly...
The next generation of software systems will be highly distributed, component-based and service-oriented. They will need to operate in unattended mode and possibly in hostile envi...
Sensor-based services propose to gather, manage, analyze, access and react to sensor data. These services are distributed over heterogeneous platforms. The complexity of the imple...