The exponential rise in the number of Web users has inspired the creation of a diversity of Web applications. Hence, Web Quality of Service (QoS) is an increasingly critical issue ...
Future information, knowledge and content infrastructures which provide highly automated support in fulfilling users goals will most likely rely on some form of GRID computing. In ...
Web services are open, interoperable, easy to integrate and reuse, and are extensively used in many application domains. Research and best practices have produced excellent support...
Leen Lambers, Leonardo Mariani, Hartmut Ehrig, Mau...
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...
With multimedia applications, the Internet traffic increased a lot in volume, but also suffered major alterations in its nature, requesting other network services besides the curr...