Abstract. This paper contributes to a line of research that aims to apply agent-oriented techniques in the field of service-oriented computing. In particular, we propose to use go...
Existing Grid workflow tools assume that individual components either communicate by passing files from one application to another, or are explicitly linked using interprocess com...
Abstract: Modeling of modern production plants often requires that the system provides means to cope with frequent changes in topology and equipment and can easily be adapted to ne...
— We present the design, implementation, and performance evaluation of AMPS — a flexible, scalable proxy testbed that supports a wide and extensible set of next-generation pro...
Xiaolan (Ellen) Zhang, Michael K. Bradshaw, Yang G...
—In this paper we extend our previous work on soft probabilistic contracts for QoS management, from the particular case of “response time”, to general QoS parameters. Our stu...