Smart contracts (SCs) run on the distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform and can
implement agreements between participants without a trusted third party. This paper uses …

With the increasing dependence on software systems, their longevity is becoming a pressing
need. Stability is envisioned as a primary property to achieve longevity. Stability has been …

An important issue in QoS-aware Web service composition is how to select a set of Web
services to perform the tasks within a requested service while meeting global QoS …

Uncertainty and response time instability can affect invoked Web services' usability,
performance, trustworthiness, and dependability. To resolve uncertainty, researchers have …

In the paper we discuss a failure and servicing model of software applications that employ
the service-oriented paradigm for defining cooperation with clients. The model takes into …

Service-oriented pervasive systems, composed of a large number of devices with
heterogeneous capabilities where devices' resources are abstracted as software services …

The paper studies the behavior of the Web Services deployed on the cloud, and investigates
their performance and the instability of the underlying communication medium. Our result …

In this paper, we propose a new strategy for QoS-aware service selection which takes
advantage of the existing variability in QoS data to provide higher quality services with less …

The service-oriented paradigm offers support for engineering service-based systems based
on service composition. QoS (Quality of Service)-aware service composition chooses a set …

This thesis studies the notion of stability in software engineering with the aim of
understanding its dimensions, facets and aspects, as well as characterising it. The thesis …