In the Taverna workflow design and enactment tool, users often find it difficult to both manually discover a service or workflow fragment that executes a desired operation on a pie...
David Withers, Edward A. Kawas, E. Luke McCarthy, ...
We present an architecture of a hosting system consisting of a set of hosted Web Services subject to QoS constraints, and a certain number of servers used to run users demand. The ...
Considering a broad definition for service contracts (beyond web services and software, e.g. airline tickets and insurance policies), we tackle the challenges of building a high ...
—It has been observed in recent years that in many applications service time demands are highly variable. Without foreknowledge of exact service times of individual jobs, process...
Steve Thompson, Lester Lipsky, Sarah Tasneem, Feng...
Renewable energies can enable embedded systems to be functional indefinitely. In particular for small autonomous sensors, energy harvesting techniques have attracted much interes...