Security is an increasingly important issue for networked services. However, since networked environments may exhibit varying networking behavior and contain heterogeneous devices ...
When designing a plant for continuous or semi-continuous processes, such as paper pulp or petrochemical production systems, engineers face very complex tasks, which are only in pa...
There are emerging technologies such as SAWSDL or WSMO that extend the current Web Services technologies to so called Semantic Web Services by combining the structural and semanti...
The application of conceptual models that assure both the consistency and usability of Electronic Product Catalogs (EPC's) is a main concern in the e-commerce community, mainl...
Automated negotiation has attracted growing interest within fields such as e-business, multi-agent systems, and web services. Nevertheless, a majority of automated negotiation res...