Replication is a technique commonly used to increase the availability of services in distributed systems, including grid and web services. While replication is relatively easy for...
Xianan Zhang, Flavio Junqueira, Matti A. Hiltunen,...
As the number of available Web services increases, there is a growing demand to find the service that best fits the user's requirements. Especially, when a set of services fu...
Semantic Web Services are a promising combination of Semantic Web and Web service technology, aiming at providing means of automatically executing, discovering and composing seman...
Mario T. Schlosser, Michael Sintek, Stefan Decker,...
For a large-scale data-intensive environment, such as the World-Wide Web or data warehousing, we often make local copies of remote data sources. Due to limited network and computa...
Data-Providing (DP) services allow query-like access to organizations' data via web services. The invocation of a DP service results in the execution of a query over data sour...