1 Most recent Grid middleware technologies have been aimed at the execution of sequential batch jobs. However, some users require interactive access when running jobs on Grid sites...
A composite multimedia object (cmo) is comprised of different media components such as text, video, audio and image, with a variety of constraints that must be adhered to. The con...
Incompatibility of component interaction styles is identified as a major obstacle to interoperability when using off-the-shelf components or dealing with legacy software in compos...
A variety of business interactions in open environments can be captured in terms of creation and manipulation of social commitments among the agents. Such interactions include B2B ...
Security is one of the major concerns when developing missioncritical business applications, and this concern motivated the Web Services Security specifications. However, the exis...