— Agentcities is a network of FIPA compliant agent platforms that constitute a distributed environment to demonstrate the potential of autonomous agents. One of the aims of the p...
Abstract—A platform-independent communication mechanism is essential for the seamless integration of embedded devices into the Web of Things. Web services provide for such commun...
Web services are self-contained, modular units of application logic which provide business functionality to other applications via Internet connections. Several models have been u...
Service orientation is a promising paradigm for offering and consuming functionalities within and across organizations. Ever increasing acceptance of service oriented architecture...
Emerging Web services standards enable the development of large-scale applications in open environments. In particular, they enable services to be dynamically bound. However, curr...