In the last 10 years several approaches and technologies other than MAS (such as Web services and Grid computing) have emerged, with the support of the industry, providing their o...
Emerging Web services standards enable the development of large-scale applications in open environments. In particular, they enable services to be dynamically bound. However, curr...
The process of semantic web service composition arranges several web services into one composite service to realize complex workflows with an exploitation of semantics. This pape...
In this paper we describe mechanisms for execution monitoring of semantic web services, based on OWL-S. The use of semantic descriptions and ontologies is a valuable extension to ...
As the popularity of the World Wide Web increases, the amount of traffic results in major congestion problems for the retrieval of data over wide distances. To react to this, user...