QoS-aware middleware for Web services composition

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 311-327

  Zeng, Liangzhao ^a   Benatallah, Boualem ^b   Ngu, Anne H H ^c   Dumas, Marlon ^d   Kalagnanam, Jayant ^a   Chang, Henry ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c Texas State University   (United States)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Integer programming; Quality of service; Service composition; Web services

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MIDDLEWARE; ONLINE SYSTEMS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; WORLD WIDE WEB;

BUSINESS TO BUSINESS COLLABORATIONS; SERVICE COMPOSITION; WEB SERVICES;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 3042666264     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2004.11     Document Type: Article

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