In pervasive computing environments, powerful handheld devices with wireless connections create opportunities for many new nomadic applications. We propose a new service discovery...
Electronic commerce applications have special features compared to conventional information systems. First, because electronic commerce usually involves yet nonexisting business a...
A key limitation of current Web services standards is the inability to differentiate service instances at runtime using (nonfunctional) qualities of services (QoS). Such differe...
In response to the difficulties experienced by the automotive industry in adopting new procurement technology this research investigates an emerging phenomenon: electronic interor...
Grid computing technologies enable widespread sharing and coordinated us of networked resources, including computing resources. Open Grid Service Architecture (OGSA) marries Web se...
Weiqin Tong, Jingbo Ding, Jianquan Tang, Bo Wang, ...