Some researchers have illustrated how individual and groups of bacteria forage for nutrients and to model it as a distributed optimization process, which is called the Bacterial F...
The WS-BPEL language has recently become a de facto standard for modeling Web-based business processes. One of its essential features is the fully programmable compensation mechan...
Abstract Web services choreography describes global models of service interactions among a set of participants. For an interaction to be executed, the participants taken part in it...
Compositional approaches to system-level performance analysis have shown great flexibility and scalability in the design of heterogeneous systems. These approaches often assume c...
We introduce TIRA1 , a software architecture for the rapid prototyping of tailored information retrieval (IR) tools. TIRA allows to compose personal IR tools from atomic IR servic...