Web services are a consolidated reality of the modern Web with tremendous, increasing
impact on everyday computing tasks. They turned the Web into the largest, most accepted …

An efficient resource allocation is a fundamental requirement in high performance
computing (HPC) systems. Many projects are dedicated to large-scale distributed computing …

In this article, I inquire into Facebook's development as a platform by situating it within the
transformation of social network sites into social media platforms. I explore this shift with a …

Cloud computing is a buzz-word in today's information technology (IT) that nobody can
escape. But what is really behind it? There are many interpretations of this term, but no …

The idea of creating and running a business over the Internet is not new. Banks and large
manufacturers are among the first in exploiting the electronic network capabilities to conduct …

In the last years, Web Service composition has undoubtedly become the most promising
way to integrate business-to-business applications. However, the industry and the academia …

After introducing the core constituents of mashups, the components, in this chapter we study
what it means to integrate different components into composite applications, that is …

Abstract The provision of Application Programming Interface (API) in BIM-enable tools can
contribute to facilitating BIM-related research. APIs are useful links for running plug-ins and …

It has often been argued that Web services would have a tremendous impact on the Web, as
a core enabling technology supporting a highly efficient service-based economy at a global …

The recently posed challenge of develo** an Enterprise Interoperability Science
Foundation (EISF) prompted some academic agents to attempt a systematisation of the …