—In this paper we extend our previous work on soft probabilistic contracts for QoS management, from the particular case of “response time”, to general QoS parameters. Our stu...
Contributions in the field of Web services have identified that (a) finding matches between semantic descriptions of advertised and requested services and (b) non-functional chara...
Michael C. Jaeger, Gregor Rojec-Goldmann, Gero M&u...
The World Wide Web is emerging not only as an infrastructure for data, but also for a broader variety of resources that are increasingly being made available as Web services. Rele...
Abhijit A. Patil, Swapna A. Oundhakar, Amit P. She...
Autonomic Computing was introduced to reduce the complexity of managing computing systems; however, the heterogeneous nature existing in most computing systems introduces some dif...
This paper presents a formal notation for modelling asynchronous web services composition, using context and coordination mechanisms. Our notation specifies the messages that can b...