This With the advance of Web Services technologies and the emergence of Web Services into the information space, tremendous opportunities for empowering users and organizations appear in various application domains including electronic commerce, travel, intelligence information gathering and analysis, health care, digital government, etc. In fact, Web services appear to be s solution for integr...

The ubiquity of IP technology is the starting-point to many current services, such as IPTV. Most of these services are supported in access network by xDSL networks (last mile), which are the service provider’s bottleneck. The main goal of this paper is to present a solution that adapts video contents to the xDSL networks. In order to provide clients with different video qualities according to t...

The underlying premise of the Region Project is that the concept of a region should be a new architecture capability in networking. A region is an entity that encapsulates and implements scoping, grouping, subdividing, and crossing boundaries of sets of entities. It is a powerful tool for managing the increasingly complex demands on the Internet and its successors, and thus should be made into ...

The power of web services can only be realized when web services are utilized as building blocks to dynamically compose new web services. The Building Finder application is an example application that integrates information from several web services by modeling the web services as information sources in a mediator-based architecture. The paper also describes a mediator framework to dynamically ...

Web Services define a new paradigm in present-day collaborative application development in enterprises, and span systems, networks, and organizations. Emerging computing infrastructures provide direct support for Web Services technologies. A characteristic feature of the current efforts in the direction of Web Services is the inclination towards providing rich and sophisticated tools for levera...

ion Type of Application Off-Network In-Network Services Awareness Optimization Optimization [34] Node services In-network No No √ [94] Jini Services Off-network No √ No [50] Web services Off-network No No No [118] Web services Off-network √ √ No [95] Node services In-network No No No [26] Node Web services In-network √ No No [38] Web services Off-network No No No [48] .NET components Off-networ...

The web-services stack of standards is designed to support the reuse and interoperation of software components on the web. A critical step in the process of developing applications based on web services is service discovery, i.e., the identification of existing web services that can potentially be used in the context of a new web application. UDDI, the standard API for publishing webservices sp...

background the current distribution of and access to health services along with the future health needs of the population have prompted wide application of geographic information systems (giss). during recent years, gis has been used in public health management for planning and organization of healthcare services. this study investigates geographical accessibility of residential areas in bandar...