Due to the large success of wireless networks and portable devices, the pervasive computing paradigm is becoming a reality. One of the most challenging objectives to be achieved in...
Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Nikolaos Georgantas, Valé...
WS-Agreement offers a general language and protocol to establish agreements between two parties. In principle, this generality enables a wide variety of domains to be covered. Yet...
Wilfried Jouve, Julien Lancia, Charles Consel, Cal...
Configuration assistants are tools for guiding the final user in simple configuration tasks, such as product assembling and customisation or study plans generation. For their wide ...
Abstract. QoS-based service selection mechanisms will play an essential role in service-oriented architectures, as e-Business applications want to use services that most accurately...
—Web Services are the most famous implementation of service oriented architectures that has brought some challenging research issues. One of these is the composition, i.e. the ca...