Abstract. Many software applications are based on collaborating, yet competing, agents or virtual organisations exchanging services. Contracts, expressing obligations, permissions ...
Organising large-scale Web information retrieval systems into hierarchies of topic-specific search resources can improve both the quality of results and the efficient use of com...
Abstract. While past research in service oriented computing has focused on the fairly static functional description and the operators of services the dynamic and flexible compositi...
The rapid growth of mobile Internet use requires highly flexible and adaptable user interfaces for web applications. Contextual data from various sources as for example device HMI...
Abstract. We describe an architecture for building speech-enabled conversational agents, deployed as self-contained Web services, with ability to provide inference processing on ve...