Web prefetching is an attractive solution to reduce the network resources consumed by Web services as well as the access latencies perceived by Web users. Unlike Web caching, whic...
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The provision of health-care services and home assistance to the elderly and chronic patients is a challenging application scenario for Web Services composition, which support the...
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Web services are increasingly gaining acceptance as a framework for facilitating application-to-application interactions within and across enterprises. It is commonly accepted tha...
Functional descriptions are a central pillar of Semantic Web services. Disregarding details on how to invoke and consume the service, they shall provide a black box description for...
Monitors have been used for real-time systems to ensure proper behavior; however, most approaches do not allow for the addition of relevant fields required to identify and react t...