For the majority of front-end e-business systems, the assumption of a coherent and homogeneous set of interfaces is highly unrealistic. Problems start in the back-end, with system...
Giacomo Piccinelli, Wolfgang Emmerich, Christian Z...
This paper explores technology permitting arbitrary application components to be exposed for remote access from other software. Using this, the application and its constituent com...
Scott M. Walker, Alan Dearle, Graham N. C. Kirby, ...
: Web Services can be used to automate business activities that span multiple enterprises over the Internet. Such business activities require a coordination protocol to reach consi...
Wenbing Zhao, Firat Kart, Louise E. Moser, P. M. M...
Because there is still no agreed-upon global ontology, Web services supplied by different providers typically have individual and unique semantics, described by independently devel...
Jingshan Huang, Rosa Laura Zavala Gutierrez, Benit...
Maintaining the Quality of Service (QoS) is important for self-healing web service-based distributed interactive applications. It requires the ability to deal with permanently cha...