: Emerging technologies and industrial standards in the field of Web services enable a much faster and easier cooperation of distributed partners. With the increasing number of en...
State-of-the-art middleware for component-based distributed applications requires openness to support a broad and varying range of services. It also requires powerful and maintaina...
Emerging Web standards promise a network of heterogeneous yet interoperable Web Services. Web Services would greatly simplify the development of many kinds of information agents a...
Abstract. We motivate, discuss and present extensions to architecture modelling techniques through which business systems can support services and applications that are location an...
In order to meet the quality of service demanded by a growing number of online customers, e-commerce services need to use scalability techniques. This paper introduces the concept...