Service-based approaches (such as Web Services and the Open Grid Services Architecture) have gained considerable attention recently for supporting distributed application developme...
M. Nedim Alpdemir, Arijit Mukherjee, Norman W. Pat...
In this paper, we develop a novel algorithm that allows service consumer agents to automatically select and provision service provider agents for their workflows in highly dynamic...
Sebastian Stein, Nicholas R. Jennings, Terry R. Pa...
Mobile software systems are characterized by their highly dynamic and unpredictable execution context. Such systems are permeating a number of domains where the systems operate in ...
Significant efforts are currently invested in application integration to enable the interaction and composition of business processes of different companies, yielding complex, mul...
Marco Brambilla, Stefano Ceri, Piero Fraternali, R...
Abstract. Many software applications are based on collaborating, yet competing, agents or virtual organisations exchanging services. Contracts, expressing obligations, permissions ...