In addition to producing a pervasive standard and a technology framework, the Web Service initiative has prompted businesses to re-examine their service delivery channels. Back-en...
Clare Gryce, Giacomo Piccinelli, Christian Zirpins
The Web, the largest unstructured database of the world, has greatly improved access to documents. However, documents on the Web are largely disorganized. Due to the distributed n...
Traditional access control mechanisms rely on a reference monitor to mediate access to protected resources. Reference monitors are inherently centralized and existing attempts to ...
This paper describes how agent and knowledge technology can be used to build advanced software systems that support operational decisionn complex domains. In particular, we present...
The development of more and more complex distributed applications over large networks of computers has raised the problem of semantic interoperability across applications based on ...
Paolo Bouquet, Bernardo Magnini, Luciano Serafini,...