SOAP, a de-facto communication protocol of Web services, is popular for its interoperability across organisations. However, SOAP is based on XML and therefore inherits XML’s disadvantage of having voluminous messages. When there are many transactions requesting similar server operations, using conventional SOAP unicast to send SOAP response messages can generate a very large amount of traffic [...

In this paper, we present an algorithm, called selforganization assisted placement (SOAP), for circuit placement in arbitrarily shaped regions, including two-dimensional rectilinear regions, nonplanar surfaces of three-dimensional objects, and three-dimensional volumes. SOAP is based on a learning algorithm for neural networks proposed by Kohonen [l], called self-organization, which adjusts the...

Multimedia has varying optimal transport methods. The traditional methods employed by transport protocols are to ship all data through identical protocol stacks. An ideal method would transport each media through an optimized stack constructed solely for that medium, allowing improved multimedia QoS to be achieved even at runtime. Dynamically composable protocol stacks overcome the limitations ...

Web Services are widely used to provide services and exchange data among business units, customers, partners and suppliers for enterprises. Although Web Services significantly improve the interaction and development of processes in the business world, they raise several security concerns, since they greatly increase the exposure of critical enterprise data. Web Services exchange data using SOAP...

I suspect that each person can recall some moments from his childhood when he was captived by the beauty of soap bubbles. Their form can be truly marvelous. As adults, we do not tend to stare at soap bubble clusters in amazement, but as a professional mathematician, it happens that once one begins their study, one can remain seduced for a lifetime. My first contact with minimal surfaces happene...