We propose location-mediated service coordination in ubiquitous computing. In the coordination, middle agents determine bestmatched services for a user by considering the user’s...
Ensuring transactional behavior of business processes and web service compositions is an essential issue in the area of serviceoriented computing. Transactions in this context may ...
A conversation protocol is a top-down specification framework which specifies desired global behaviors of a web service composition. In our earlier work [6] we studied the problem...
Before using RDF(S) and DAML+OIL ontologies in Semantic Web applications, its content should be evaluated from a knowledge representation point of view. In recent years, some RDF(S...
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...