The Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL) has emerged as a standard for specifying and executing processes. It is supported by vendors such as IBM and Microso...
Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Marlon Dumas, Arthur H. M...
Load sharing in the data centre is an essential strategy for meeting service levels in high volume and high availability services. We investigate the accuracy with which simple, cl...
There is a trend in some manufacturing industries to move from selling products to providing services. As a result, designers must consider the life-cycle costs. In the aero indust...
Vocal systems are a well-established reality. Examples of popular voice-based applications include helpdesk services, reservation systems, and vocal mailboxes. These services, tha...
Distributed applications should be able to make use of an object group service in a number of application specific ways. Three main modes of interactions can be identified: (i) re...