The increasing tendency of network service users to use cloud computing encourages web
service vendors to supply services that have different functional and nonfunctional (quality of …

Service‐oriented architecture is becoming a major software framework for complex
application and it can be dynamically and flexibly composed by integrating existing …

With the advent of cloud manufacturing (CMfg), more and more services in CMfg platforms
may provide the same functionality but differ in performance. In order to insure the …

In the state of the art, there are very few studies on agent-based Cloud Computing.
Nevertheless, this is an emerging trend and the number of studies and applications in this …

We present a distributed graph database system to manage historical data for large evolving
information networks, with the goal to enable temporal and evolutionary queries and …

With the development of technology and computer systems, web services are used to
develop business processes. Since a web service only performs a simple operation, web …

This is an introduction to multicast routing, which is the study of methods for routing from one
source to many destinations, or from many sources to many destinations. Multicast is …

The use of the star graph as a viable interconnection scheme for parallel computers has
been examined by a number of authors in recent times. An attractive feature of this class of …

Many network services which process a large quantity of data and knowledge are available
in the distributed network environment, and provide applications to users based on Service …

Forecasting workflow activity durations is of great importance to support satisfactory QoS in
workflow systems. Traditionally, a workflow system is often designed to facilitate the process …