Strong consistency is an important correctness property for replicated databases. It ensures that each transaction accesses the latest committed database state as provided in centr...
Abstract. The Internet and the Web have extended traditional business networks by allowing a Web of different digital resources to work together to create value for organizations. ...
Service providers and their customers agree on certain quality of service guarantees through Service Level Agreements (SLA). An SLA contains one or more Service Level Objectives (S...
Yuan Chen, Subu Iyer, Xue Liu, Dejan S. Milojicic,...
: It has often been argued that Web services would have a tremendous impact on the Web, as a core enabling technology supporting a highly efficient service-based economy at a globa...
—The Web Service Description Language defines a service as a procedure whose inputs and outputs are structured XML data values, sometimes called documents. In this paper we argu...
Ali Ibrahim, Marc Fisher II, William R. Cook, Eli ...