Open networks are often insecure and provide an opportunity for viruses and DDOS activities to spread. To make such networks more resilient against these kind of threats, we propo...
Social commitments have long been recognized as an important concept for multiagent systems. We propose a rich formulation of social commitments that motivates an architecture for ...
This paper offers a high-level retrospective overview of the GOPI middleware platform which is the outcome of a three year project aimed at the development of generic, configurabl...
In E-commerce processes, various rules and constraints regarding product specifications, pricing, terms and conditions are exchanged between vendors and buyers. Developing a forma...
Mizuho Iwaihara, Masayuki Kozawa, Jun Narazaki, Ya...
This paper focuses on coordination middleware for distributed applications based on active documents and XML technologies. It introduces the main concepts underlying active docume...
Paolo Ciancarini, Robert Tolksdorf, Franco Zambone...