The recent years have witnessed significant interest in migrating different applications into
the cloud platforms. In this context, one of the main challenges for cloud applications …

Modern database management systems (DBMS) have been designed to efficiently store,
manage and perform computations on massive amounts of data. In contrast, many existing …

With the fast development of Internet and rapid acceptance of Web Service technology, more
and more service resources have emerged. Service composition which integrates the …

Replication techniques are widely applied in and for cloud to improve scalability and
availability. In such context, the well-understood problem is how to guarantee consistency …

Web services are gaining high popularity and importance on mobile devices. Connected to
ad-hoc networks, they provide the possibility to establish spontaneously even complex …

Increasingly complex information systems operating in dynamic environments ask for
management policies able to deal intelligently and autonomously with problems and tasks …

In this paper we propose a new routing protocol and address scheme, geographically
informed inter-domain routing (GIRO). GIRO departs from previous geographic addressing …

This paper discusses how communities of Web services sustain the high availability of Web
services engaged in composition scenarios. Availability is the proportion of time that a …

Purpose–In any critical system, high‐availability of software components like web services
has so far been achieved through replication. Three replication strategies known as active …

Replication is a well-known technique to enhance dependability and performance in
distributed systems. A plethora of replication middleware for distributed object systems has …