In this paper, we describe our experiences in building and evolving an XQuery engine with a focus on data and service federation use cases. The engine that we discuss is a core co...
Michael Blow, Vinayak R. Borkar, Michael J. Carey,...
Services for mobile and pervasive computing should extensively exploit contextual information both to adapt to user needs and to enable autonomic behavior. This raises the problem...
Gabriella Castelli, Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli
: Ensuring composite services reliability is a challenging problem. Indeed, due to the inherent autonomy and heterogeneity of Web services it is difficult to predict and reason abo...
In recent years, customers' demands on financial services have changed significantly and the number of customers who engage in electronic commerce for financial transactions ...
The popularity of mobile social networking services (mSNSs) is propelling more and more businesses, especially those in retailing and marketing, into mobile and location-based for...