Due to significant industrial demands toward software systems with increasing complexity
and challenging quality requirements, software architecture design has become an …

The severity of a reported bug is a critical factor in deciding how soon it needs to be fixed.
Unfortunately, while clear guidelines exist on how to assign the severity of a bug, it remains …

This article investigates the problem of cloud service composition optimal-selection
(CSCOS) in cloud manufacturing (CMfg). The categories of cloud services and their QoS …

Cloud computing and Internet of Things have promoted a new logistics service mode, ie, the
cloud logistics mode. This work studies the resource virtualization and service encapsulation …

Enhanced privacy ID (EPID) is a cryptographic scheme that enables the remote
authentication and attestation of a hardware device while preserving the privacy of the …

This paper presents the Compaan tool that automatically transforms a nested loop program
written in Matlab into a process network specification. The process network model of …

Ranking and optimization of web service compositions represent challenging areas of
research with significant implications for the realization of the “Web of Services” …

This paper addresses automatic service composition (ASC) as a means to create new value-
added services dynamically and automatically from existing services in service-oriented …

With the steadily growing number of service providers the competition becomes more and
more intense. In order to find a distinctive edge over other competitors, automatic service …

Domotics, concerned with the realization of intelligent home environments, is a novel field
which can highly benefit from solutions inspired by service-oriented principles to enhance …