The dynamic nature of the Internet poses various challenges to the successful execution of
composite Web services. Failures are samples of these challenges. It needs to be …

Abstract The World Wide Web is evolving into a medium providing a wide array of e-
commerce, business-to-business, business-to-consumer, and other information-based …

Purpose–In any critical system, high‐availability of software components like web services
has so far been achieved through replication. Three replication strategies known as active …

Networked manufacturing is an advanced manufacturing pattern that was born of
information technologies and suits the networked economic environment. Networked …

Failures during web service execution may depend on a wide variety of causes. One of
those is loss of Quality of Service (QoS). Failures during web service execution impose …

This chapter describes two tools for improving dependability of SOA-based applications:
ReSP (Reliable SOA Platform) and DyMST (Dynamic Management SOA Toolkit). ReSP is a …

Processor scheduling policies can be broadly divided into space-sharing and time-sharing
policies. Space-sharing policies partition system processors and each partition is allocated …

This paper discusses how interactions between Web services engaged in composition
scenarios are analyzed, modeled, and finally managed. Interactions are primarily …

A key indicator of today's global business system supported by service oriented architecture
(SOA), is the reliability and uptime. This concern is crucial for e-commerce sites and mission …

Web services have been widely employed to allow interoperability among applications
and/or technologies. However, the standard technologies and protocols which provide the …