Web Services in Distributed Information Systems
Xia Zhao, Tao Wang, Enjie Liu, Gordon Clapworthy · International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies · 2010
Distributed information systems are growing rapidly in response to the improvement of computer hardware and software and this is matched by the evolution of the technologies involved. This article focuses mainly on Web Services technology and discusses related technical issues including availability, performance and composition. It also introduces Grid, agents and Semantic Web technologies that can work together with Web Services to serve different business goals.