Loose coupling is often quoted as a desirable property of systems architectures. One of the main goals of building systems using Web technologies is to achieve loose coupling. How...
Workflow models have been used and refined for years to execute processes within organisations. To deal with collaborative processes (choreographies) these internal workflow model...
In this paper we discuss utility functions models to study Radio Resource Management. Our goal is to identify the characteristics of the wireless systems which make such theoretic...
The Globus Toolkit (GT) has been developed since the late 1990s to support the development of service-oriented distributed computing applications and infrastructures. Core GT compo...
A modern server system must deliver a complex set of obligations towards its users. We study the concept of roles as autonomous encapsulations of a set of promises. Using virtuali...