—Service Level Agreements (SLA) are commonly used to define terms and conditions of service provisioning. WS-Agreement1 is an SLA specification that addresses the need of both ...
K. P. Clark, Martijn Warnier, Frances M. T. Brazie...
Web services (WS) received significant attention recently because services can be searched, bound, and executed at runtime over the Internet. This paper proposes a dynamic reconfi...
Wei-Tek Tsai, Weiwei Song, Raymond A. Paul, Zhibin...
Traditionally, in-network services like firewall, proxy, cache, and transcoders have been provided by dedicated hardware middleboxes. A recent trend has been to remove the middleb...
Jeongkeun Lee, Jean Tourrilhes, Puneet Sharma, Suj...
The increasing complexity of computer networks and our increasing dependence on them means enforcing reliability requirements is both more challenging and more critical. The expan...
Most agent systems today are closed and static. That is, one uses Agent-Oriented Software Engineering techniques to build agent systems in which the set of agents is specified ahe...