Service composition is one of the key objectives for adopting Service Oriented Architecture. Today, web services, however, are not always perfectly compatible and composition mism...
Xitong Li, Yushun Fan, Jian Wang, Li Wang, Feng Ji...
The UML is the de facto standard for system specification, but offers little specialized support for the specification and analysis of policies. This paper presents Deontic STAIRS,...
In a pervasive computing environment, the devices are embedded in the physical world, providing services and interconnected by a communication network. Composition of these servic...
Joanna Izabela Siebert, Jiannong Cao, Long Cheng, ...
We address the problem of constructing multiagent systems by coordinating heterogeneous, autonomous agents, whose internal designs may not be fully known. A major application area...
: Due to the deregulation of the telecom network and the Internet, users will have access to an increasing number of heterogeneous communication services and will need to adapt the...