Towards an approach to sustain web services high-availability using communities of web services

International Journal of Web Information Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 32-55

  Maamar, Zakaria ^a   Sheng, Quan Z ^b   Tata, Samir ^c   Benslimane, Djamal ^d   Sellami, Mohamed ^c  

^a ZAYED UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Computer components; Computer software; Worldwide web

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE REPLICATION; COMPUTER COMPONENTS; CRITICAL SYSTEMS; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; HIGH AVAILABILITY; REPLICATION STRATEGIES; SOFTWARE COMPONENT;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; WEBSITES;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 77954450898     PISSN: 17440084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17440080910947303     Document Type: Article

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