Smart Cities are advancing towards an instrumented, integrated, and intelligent living space,
where Internet of Things (IoT), mobile technologies and next generation networks are …

In an environment of constant change and variation driven by competition and innovation, a
software service can rarely remain stable. Being able to manage and control the evolution of …

In this paper, an underwater image enhancement method using quaternions is presented.
This work aims to improve color rendition and contrast of the objects, as if the scene has …

In the S-Cube research framework, the Service Composition and Co-ordination (SCC) layer
encompasses the functions required for the aggregation of multiple services into a single …

Purpose Services comprise of socio-technical (human and technological) factors which
exchange various resources and competencies. Service networks are used to transfer …

Software services are subject to constant change and variation. To control service
development, a service developer needs to know why a change was made, what are its …

Services comprise of socio-technical (human and technological) factors which exchange
various resources and competencies. Service networks are used to transfer resources and …

In the paradigm of service-oriented computing, companies organize their core competencies
as services and may request other functionalities from services of other companies. Services …

Quality attributes of software products like maintainability and reliability have been widely
studied in the Software Engineering literature. Their understanding has proven instrumental …

Recently, most enterprises adapt Web services technologies for designing and building
complex inter-enterprise business applications. These applications are built by the …