The interface definition of a component in a distributed system forms the contract between the component itself and its neighbouring components regarding the use of its services....
Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) has gained considerable popularity for implementing Service-Based Applications (SBAs) in a flexible and effective manner. The basic idea of SOC i...
Maha Driss, Naouel Moha, Yassine Jamoussi, Jean-Ma...
— As Service Discovery Protocols (SDP) are becoming increasingly important for ubiquitous computing, they must behave according to predefined principles. We present the function...
Vasughi Sundramoorthy, Pieter H. Hartel, Jerry den...
Hermes is a middleware system for design and execution of activity-based applications in distributed environments. It supports mobile computation as an application implementation s...
Abstract. The description of public resources such as web site contents, web services or data files in open peer-to-peer networks using some formal framework like RDF usually re...