Web services are often employed to create wide distributed evolvable applications from existing components that constitute a service-based software system. ServicesOriented Archit...
The emerging service grids bring together various distributed services to a ‘market’ for clients to request and enable the integration of services across distributed, heteroge...
Sensor-based services propose to gather, manage, analyze, access and react to sensor data. These services are distributed over heterogeneous platforms. The complexity of the imple...
The programmable service for Internet telephony (VoIP) allows end-users or third parties to define their own customized services. However, it imposes a serious drawback that serv...
To accommodate applications with highly variable degrees and categories of Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, a major effort has been invested to overcome the traditional best-...