Reputation in P2P networks is an important tool to encourage cooperation among peers. It is based on ranking of peers according to their past behaviour. In large-scale real world ...
Dynamic composition of web services requires an automated step of contracting, i.e., the computation of a possibly fruitful interaction between two (or more) services, based on the...
Marco Alberti, Massimiliano Cattafi, Marco Gavanel...
In early 2007, the California State University (CSU) system initiated a program to make all information technology accessible to persons with disabilities; the authors were appoint...
Based on the FOCUS theory of distributed systems (see [Broy, Stølen 01]) that are composed of interacting components we introduce a formal model of services and layered architectu...
We describe techniques for combining two types of knowledge systems: expert and machine learning. Both the expert system and the learning system represent information by logical d...