Metadata is the information that describes the most important feature of an object. In recent years, metadata plays a more and more important role in data intensive applications. I...
High quality is one of the critical elements contributing to Web service’s success. Monitoring events that are sensitive to quality of Web services is thus an important issue fo...
— Modern networks provide a QoS (quality of service) model to go beyond best-effort services, but current QoS models are oriented towards low-level network parameters (e.g., band...
Client-server architectures with clients on divergent platforms are in need of services that serve a high level of interoperability and a loose binding. It should be prevented tha...
Barbara Van De Keer, Dieter Van Rijsselbergen, Eri...
Abstract. The explosive evolution of pervasive computing environments presents several new challenges such as smart spaces, invisibility, localized scalability, and masking uneven ...