In this paper we describe mechanisms for execution monitoring of semantic web services, based on OWL-S. The use of semantic descriptions and ontologies is a valuable extension to ...
Instant Messaging (IM) is in addition to Web and Email the most popular service on the Internet. With xOperator we present a strategy and implementation which deeply integrates Ins...
Current industry standards for describing Web Services are focused on ensuring interoperability across diverse platforms, but do not provide a good foundation for automating the u...
David L. Martin, Mark H. Burstein, Drew V. McDermo...
Pervasive computing is an emerging computing paradigm, which is expected to be part of our everyday life in the foreseeable future. The coordination among heterogeneous devices, s...
Commitment management is a key issue in service-provisioning in the context of virtual organisations (VOs). A service-provider — which may be a single agent acting within an orga...