A current trend in the web services community is to define coordination mechanisms to execute collaborative tasks involving multiple organizations. Following this tendency, this w...
Abstract. Service-oriented Computing and Service-oriented Architectures aspire to better exploit existing middleware technologies. To this end, a more flexible, platform independen...
Web services advocate loosely coupled systems, although current loosely coupled applications are limited to stateless services. The reason for this limitation is the lack of a met...
Andreas Wombacher, Peter Fankhauser, Erich J. Neuh...
Internet service utilities host multiple server applications on a shared server cluster. A key challenge for these systems is to provision shared resources on demand to meet servi...
Ronald P. Doyle, Jeffrey S. Chase, Omer M. Asad, W...
−The ability for software agents to discover, query, and task ubiquitous sensors requires machineinterpretable service descriptions, such as those proposed by the Semantic Web ef...
J. Caleb Goodwin, David J. Russomanno, Joseph Qual...