With the proliferation of multimedia data sources on the Internet, we envision an increasing demand for value-added and functionrich multimedia services that transport, process, a...
As the amount of biological data continues to increase, how biologists share data and analysis tools efficiently is becoming an important issue. Web service technology is a promis...
Zhiming Wang, John A. Miller, Jessica C. Kissinger...
The Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS) is the de facto standard for the composition of web services into complex, valued-added workflows in both indus...
The main characteristics of component models is their strict structure enabling better code reuse. Correctness of component composition is well understood formally but existing wor...
—In this paper we extend our previous work on soft probabilistic contracts for QoS management, from the particular case of “response time”, to general QoS parameters. Our stu...