Web services are a consolidated reality of the modern Web with tremendous, increasing
impact on everyday computing tasks. They turned the Web into the largest, most accepted …

In the last years, Web Service composition has undoubtedly become the most promising
way to integrate business-to-business applications. However, the industry and the academia …

After introducing the core constituents of mashups, the components, in this chapter we study
what it means to integrate different components into composite applications, that is …

This volume provides an overview and an understanding of REST (Representational State
Transfer). Discussing the constraints of REST the book focuses on REST as a type of web …

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the thermal effh in advanced high
performance interconnect systems arising due to selfheating under various circuit …

Next-generation networks, as envisioned by ITU-T, are packet-based networks, capable of
provisioning consistent and ubiquitous services to end users independent of the network …

Abstract Representational State Transfer (REST) services are gaining momentum as a
lightweight approach for the provision of services on the Web. Unlike WSDL-based services …

Context: The emergence of the long-tail in the market of software applications is shifting the
role of end-users from mere consumers to becoming developers of applications addressing …

Cloud computing is a computing paradigm wherein computing resources, such as servers,
storage and applications, can be provisioned and accessed in real time via advanced …

Component-based Software Development (CBD)[Bachmann et al.(2000);(2001); Szyperski
et al.(2002)] aims to compose systems from pre-built software units, or components. A …