One vision of the “Semantic Web” of the future is that software agents will interact with each other using formal metadata that reveal their interfaces. We examine one plausibl...
Drew V. McDermott, Mark H. Burstein, Douglas R. Sm...
WS-* specifications cover a variety of issues ranging from security and reliability to transaction support in web services. However, these specifications do not address web servic...
With the advent of Web services and orchestration specifications like BPEL it is possible to define workflows on an Internet-scale. In the health-care domain highly structured and ...
The most important recent development in Grid systems is the adoption of the Web services model as a basic architecture for Grid services. The result is called the Open Grid Servi...
The demand for real-time database services has been increasing recently. Examples include sensor data fusion, stock trading, decision support, web information services, and data-i...