The research community is struggling with the right approach to integrate emerging agent technology with the exploding web page-based Internet. This paper presents the approach us...
Interoperability in a large-scale distributed system is challenged by by the diversity of node policies. We introduce AMPol (Adaptive Messaging Policy), a serviceoriented architec...
Raja Afandi, Jianqing Zhang, Munawar Hafiz, Carl A...
Both semantic web applications and individuals are in need of knowledge infrastructures that can be used in dynamic and distributed environments where different autonomous entities...
: This paper describes a new algorithm for merging the results of remote collections in a distributed information retrieval environment. The algorithm makes use only of the ranks o...
Georgios Paltoglou, Michail Salampasis, Maria Satr...
— 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...