—A P2PTV system allows users to watch live video streams redistributed by other users via a peer-to-peer (P2P) network. In an ideal world, each peer in a P2P network would be abl...
In his article entitled "From Play-In Scenarios to Code: An Achievable Dream", David Harel presented a development schema that makes it possible to go from high-level us...
This paper is concerned with the application of Web services to distributed, cross-organizational business processes. In this scenario, it is crucial to answer the following questi...
From a multiagent viewpoint, a workflow is a dynamic set of tasks performed by a set of agents to reach a shared goal. We show herein that commitments among agents can be used to ...
Interactions between agents in an open system such as the Internet require a significant degree of flexibility. A crucial aspect of the development of such methods is the notion o...