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

Publish/Subscribe systems have become a prevalent model for delivering data from
producers (publishers) to consumers (subscribers) distributed across wide-area networks …

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 …

We present our policy-based middleware, called Manageable and Adaptive Service
Compositions (MASC), for dynamic self-adaptation of Web services compositions to various …

The Web services architecture defines separate specifications for the composition and the
coordination of Web services. BPEL is a language for creating service compositions in the …

A holy grail of component-based software engineering is write-once, reuse everywhere.
However, in modern distributed, component-based systems supporting emerging …

The Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS or BPEL for short)
is an XML-based language for defining business processes that provides an interoperable …

On the one hand, Web services are increasingly gaining attention. Standardization efforts
have improved their stability and range of applications. Composition and coordination …

In this paper, we propose a service-oriented reliability model that dynamically calculates the
reliability of composite web services with rollback recovery based on the real-time …

Automotive and avionics systems are complex, distributed, software-intensive systems-of-
systems (SoS). Consequently, system integration is a central challenge in both domains …