With the advent of the new generation of Internet-based technology, in particular Web Services, the automation of business activities that are distributed across multiple enterpri...
Wenbing Zhao, Louise E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith
In this paper we analyse an apparently simple collaborative activity, that of passing an implement from one person to another. The particular case we consider is surgical operation...
Marcus Sanchez Svensson, Christian Heath, Paul Luf...
In this paper we develop a formalization of semantic relations that facilitates efficient implementations of relations in lexical databases or knowledge representation systems usi...
The e ective design of composite dependable and real-time protocols entails demonstrating their proof of correctness and, in practice, the e cient delivery of services. We focus o...
The most natural way of thinking about negotiation is probably a situation whereby each of the parties involved initially make a proposal that is particularly beneficial to themse...