Web service development and usage has shifted from simple information processing services to high-value business services that are crucial to productivity and success. In order to...
Abstract. A Web Service is commonly not an independent software entity, but plays a role in some business process. Hence, it depends on the services provided by external Web Servic...
Antonia Bertolino, Guglielmo De Angelis, Lars Fran...
Trust is a sine qua non for trade. According to transaction cost economics, a contract always offers some opportunity to defect. In the case of asymmetric product information, wher...
Gert Jan Hofstede, Catholijn M. Jonker, Tim Verwaa...
Database-centric information systems are critical to the operations of large organisations. In particular, they often process a large amount of data with stringent performance req...
Lack of effective performance-evaluation environments is a major barrier to the broader use of high performance computing. Conventional performance environments are based on profi...