In the last 10 years several approaches and technologies other than MAS (such as Web services and Grid computing) have emerged, with the support of the industry, providing their o...
XML-based metadata information services are a crucial core service needed by Problem Solving Environments built over emerging service-based, globally-scaled distributed systems, a...
Ozgur Balsoy, Ying Jin, Galip Aydin, Marlon E. Pie...
This paper advocates the need for a mechanism that will allow the evaluation of the provided quality of service (QoS) by a service provider to a service customer in B2B service pr...
While numerous efforts have focused on service composition in the Grid environment, service selection among similar services from multiple providers has not been addressed. In par...
William Kwok-Wai Cheung, Jiming Liu, Kevin H. Tsan...
This paper describes the current status and programme of continued development and support for the UK’s National Grid Service (NGS). Through the activities presented in this pap...