Service‐oriented architecture (SOA) is gaining momentum as an emerging distributed
system architecture for business‐to‐business collaborations. This momentum can be …

Abstract The Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) paradigm is allowing computer systems to
interact with each other in new ways. According to the literature, SOC allows composition of …

In recent years, grid technology has emerged as an important tool for solving compute‐
intensive problems within the scientific community and in industry. To further the …

System Quality and Software Architecture collects state-of-the-art knowledge on how to
intertwine software quality requirements with software architecture and how quality attributes …

Web services are considered a new paradigm for building software applications that has
many advantages over the previous paradigms; however, Web services are still not widely …

Software testing is one of the most important techniques used to assure the quality of Web
services at present. Test-data generation is an important topic in Web services testing. The …

Due to the nature of software development processes, different parties (users, developers,
business actors, etc.) have different views on the quality a system under development (SUD) …

Abstract In recent years, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) have risen in use as an
architectural style for distributed systems. They have many desirable features such as …

k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) is very simple and powerful approach to conceptually
approximate real-valued or discrete-valued target function. Many researchers have recently …

This survey paper presents an overview of the fault-models available to the researcher who
wants to parameterise system-models in order to study Quality-of-Service (QoS) properties …