State-of-the-art run-time systems are a poor match to diverse, dynamic distributed applications because they are designed to provide support to a wide variety of applications, with...
Lawrence Rauchwerger, Nancy M. Amato, Josep Torrel...
This paper investigates architecture and interface design issues in engineering conversational multimedia interfaces for accessing network-based services. In particular, we focus ...
Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio, S. Narayanan, P. Ruscitti, ...
Flexibility and interoperability make web services well suited for designing highly-customizable reactive service-based applications, that is interactive applications that can be ...
Leen Lambers, Hartmut Ehrig, Leonardo Mariani, Mau...
Application execution time prediction is of key importance in making decisions about efficient usage of Grid resources. Grid services lack support of a generic application executi...
Farrukh Nadeem, Muhammad Murtaza Yousaf, Radu Prod...
The proliferation of IEEE 802.11-based wireless LANs opens up avenues for creation of several tetherless and mobility oriented services. Most of these services, like voice over WL...