Abstract. Developing systems through the composition of reusable software services is not straightforward in most situations since different kinds of mismatch may occur among their...
Supporting security in distributed systems is becoming more important with the ongoing work in grids, distributed middlewares and web services. Decentralised security architecture...
Web services specification provides an open standard for the distributed service oriented architecture. It is widely used in Internet and pervasive networks supporting wireless m...
Over recent years, "Internet-able" applications have been used to support domains where distributed functionality is essential. This flexibility is also pertinent in situ...
Rapid acceptance of the Web Services architecture promises to make it the most widely supported and popular object-oriented architecture to date. One consequence is that a wave of...
Kenneth P. Birman, Robbert van Renesse, Werner Vog...