Almost all medium- and large-scale businesses rely on electronic workflow systems to manage their business processes. A key challenge is to enable the easy re-use and modification...
This paper presents the implementation of the CU VOCAL Web service, one of the first Chinese text-to-speech synthesis Web services. The CU VOCAL Web service can be easily integrat...
Helen M. Meng, Tin Hang Lo, Chi-Kin Keung, Man Che...
In spite of significant work on real-time content distribution, providing consistent service quality across the Internet remains a challenge. Multicast applications further exace...
Abstract. The performance of multi-tier systems is known to be significantly degraded by workloads that place bursty service demands on system resources. Burstiness can cause queu...
Giuliano Casale, Amir Kalbasi, Diwakar Krishnamurt...
It is critical to guarantee the reliability of serviceoriented applications. This is because they may employ remote Web Services as components, which may easily become unavailable...