Two important architectural choices underlie the success of the Web: numerous, independently operated servers speak a common protocol, and a single type of client--the Web browser...
While modern CPUs offer an increasing number of cores with shared caches, prevailing execution engines for business processes, workflows, or Web service compositions have not been ...
XACML has become the de facto standard for specifying access control policies for various applications, especially web services. With the explosive growth of web applications depl...
Service-based approaches are widely used to integrate heterogenous systems. Web services allow for the definition of highly dynamic systems where components (services) can be dis...
—The performance of BPEL processes depends on the composing web services. Monitoring web service performance and adapting to changes in service performance are essential for crea...