Abstract. Ontologies play a relevant role to support service matchmaking in the discovery process. In fact, the elements used for service capability description refer to concepts t...
Devis Bianchini, Valeria De Antonellis, Michele Me...
Widely deployed multimedia services are expected to accommodate clients in a highly heterogeneous environment. Clients of a multimedia service may vary greatly in processing and c...
Abstract. A Web Service is commonly not an independent software entity, but plays a role in some business process. Hence, it depends on the services provided by external Web Servic...
Antonia Bertolino, Guglielmo De Angelis, Lars Fran...
Data-Providing (DP) services allow query-like access to organizations' data via web services. The invocation of a DP service results in the execution of a query over data sour...
Consider an M/G/c queue with homogeneous servers and service time distribution F. It is shown that an approximation of the service time distribution F by stochastically smaller di...