This article presents an overview of new services that could be made widely available by contents distribution businesses through the application of metadata. Technologies supporting these new services and NTT Laboratories’ recent R&D initiatives in this area are also described. New Services and Technologies Associated with Metadata Special Feature: Trend of Metadata Application Services † NTT ...

Fierce market competition nowadays forces enterprises integrating processes internal or across organizational boundaries, which makes distributed business process management (BPM) difficult with existing technologies. Web services are rapidly emerging as important building blocks for business integration. This paper discusses the application of web services in BPM context. The relationship betw...

Definition Web services provide the distributed computing middleware that enables machine-to-machine communication over standard Web protocols. Web services are defined most precisely by their intended use rather than by the specific technologies used, since different technologies are popular [1]. Web services are useful in a compositional approach to application development; where certain key ...

Web services are developing as an important alternative to traditional sources of application development. Web services in its envisioned state will permit firms to purchase best of breed web services and integrate these web services over the Internet into a single application based on an agreed upon level of standards. This new development method mimics how manufacturers have traditionally ass...

Using radio frequency identification technology in information management application for services by mobile applications are an important topic in modern technologies for portability and personalization in distributed integrated electronic commerce applied at increase in popularity of web-based events services to user information. In design information management cases study on radio frequency...

ion is the key in SOA, which has layers of abstraction such as the application service layer, the business service layer, and the orchestration service layer as shown in Figure 1[11]. The application service layer establishes the ground level foundation that exists to express technology-specific functionality. While application services are responsible for representing technology and applicatio...

Despite significant advances in the access control domain, requirements of new computational environments like web services still raise new challenges. Lack of appropriate method for specification of access control policies (ACPs), composition, verification and analysis of them have all made the access control in the composition of web services a complicated problem. In this paper, a new indepe...

A sensor network is expected to provide effective delivery of its services by taking an appropriate action based on one or more situations that it senses in the environment. However, due to the dynamism of application requirements and user context, it is often required to re-configure services from a sensor network to meet specific application needs. This paper is an attempt to enable dynamic a...

In incremental development approaches, the integration of new services into the actual cloud application may trigger the dynamic reconfiguration of the cloud application architecture, thus changing its structure and behavior at runtime. This paper presents a model driven approach that uses the specification of how the integration of new services will change the current cloud application archite...

Web service technologies accelerate application development by allowing the selection and integration of third-party web services, achieving high modularity, flexibility and configurability. However, current approaches only allow this integration by hard wiring the references to concrete web services into the client applications. Moreover they do not provide any management support, which is fun...