— Web services orchestrations and choreographies require establishing Quality of Service (QoS) contracts with the user. This is achieved by performing QoS composition, based on c...
Sidney Rosario, Albert Benveniste, Stefan Haar, Cl...
There are an increasing number of initiatives for the migration of agents research towards new Internet technologies such as the semantic web, Grid, and web services. On the one h...
Shamimabi Paurobally, Chris van Aart, Valentina A....
— Telemedicine, distance learning and e-commerce applications impose time constraints directly related to the efficacy of their operations. In order to offer reliability levels ...
Lucas S. Casagrande, Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello, R...
The purpose of the XML Key Management Specification (XKMS) is to facilitate the use of a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) by transferring the complexity associated with PKI to a t...
Michelle S. Wangham, Emerson Ribeiro de Mello, Jon...
Modern computer-supported cooperative work applications (CSCW) supporting same-time/different-place interaction are required to open several communication channels. Each of these ...