to use services transparently in a distributed environment, the utility grids develop a cyber-infrastructure. the parameters of the quality of service such as the allocation-cost and makespan have to be dealt with in order to schedule workflow application tasks in the utility grids. optimization of both target parameters above is a challenge in a distributed environment and may conflict one ano...

for dissemination) Work Package 12 provides the DIP consortium and in particular the technology providers in DIP with realworld background information on potential application areas for Semantic Web Services. This deliverable gives an overview of Semantic Web Services and nine potential application areas and analyzes one application area, namely Business Process Management, in more detail.

This paper describes the Network Modeler application that helps differentiated services network design, planning and configuration testing. This application allows a user to draw a network, configure it, and evaluate its performance through simulation. A simple scenario is presented, showing the potentialities of the Network Modeler, the advantages of using differentiated services, and proving ...

The INSPIRE services network architecture establishes rules for architectural model of the European Spatial Data Infrastructure. Each Member State of the European Union should create new services or adapt existing ones according to the implementing rules derived from the INSPIRE directive. The INSPIRE Drafting Team responsible for services implementing rules has agreed that services should be W...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a facade for seamlessly using locating services and enabling easy development of an application with indoor and outdoor location information without being aware of the difference of individual services. To achieve this purpose, in this paper, a unified locating service, called KULOCS (Kobe-University Unified LOCating Service), which horizontally...

Most EAI tools facilitate the integration of several application services to implement a designed workflow process. The individual application systems are coordinated by a workflow-driven broker-server that integrates the system through web-service technologies such as SOAP and XML. This paper describes a performance-evaluation methodology that we have developed for the analysis of such integra...

The Economic factors are leading to the rise of infrastructures provides software and computing facilities as a service, known as cloud services or cloud computing. Cloud services can provide efficiencies for application providers, both by limiting up-front capital expenses, and by reducing the cost of ownership over time. Such services are made available in a data center, using shared commodit...

A set of services and interface primitives to be offered to an application programmer of an ad hoc wireless sensor and actuator network (AWSAN) is described. As the definition of sockets has made the use of communication services in the Internet independent of the underlying protocol stack, communication medium and even operating system, the proposed application interface, called the “sensor ne...