Web services allow authorized entities (including individuals, corporations, and automated agents) to employ software components created by other parties scattered across the glob...
Marcus Fontoura, Tobin J. Lehman, Dwayne Nelson, T...
The development of new services through the integration of existing ones has gained a considerable momentum as a means to create and streamline business-to-business collaborations...
Boualem Benatallah, Quan Z. Sheng, Anne H. H. Ngu,...
Increasingly, applications are being built by combining existing software components. For the most part, a software developer can treat components as black-boxes. However, for som...
Andrew Chan, Reid Holmes, Gail C. Murphy, Annie T....
Abstract-- The success of Web Services as a tool to decouple and distribute different processes is beyond any doubt. On the one hand, their distributed nature makes them perfect to...
In a future networked physical world, a myriad of smart sensors and actuators assess and control aspects of their environments and autonomously act in response to it. Examples ran...