Abstract Service-oriented architectures (SOA) is an emerging approach that addresses the
requirements of loosely coupled, standards-based, and protocol-independent distributed …

Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) are rapidly emerging as the premier integration and
architectural approach in contemporary, complex, heterogeneous computing environments …

The concept of smart city was born to provide improved quality of life to citizens. The key
idea is to integrate information system services of each domain, such as health, education …

Web services will soon handle users' private information. They'll need to provide privacy
guarantees to prevent this delicate information from ending up in the wrong hands. More …

Performance engineering of parallel and distributed applications is a complex task that
iterates through various phases, ranging from modeling and prediction, to performance …

To demonstrate the utility of semantic Web service descriptions for service composition,
we've developed a goal-oriented, interactive composition approach that uses matchmaking …

Integration is a very important issue in e-business systems integration. There are three basic
mechanisms to integrate diverse applications: data interchange, application program …

G06Q—INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY
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Current middleware solutions, eg, application servers and Web services, are very complex
software products that are hard to tame because of intricacies of distributed systems. Their …

The Practical Handbook of Internet Computing analyzes a broad array of technologies and
concerns related to the Internet, including corporate intranets. Fresh and insightful articles by …