In mobile commerce, short-message-service (SMS) is an important technique for delivering payment instruction. A payment model "SMS Credit" was proposed earlier [1]. Such...
Service discovery and its automation are some of the key features that a large scale, open distributed system must provide so that clients and users may take advantage of shared re...
In previous work we have proposed an extension to ASP (Answer Set Programming), called RASP, standing for ASP with Resources. RASP supports declarative reasoning on production and...
Stefania Costantini, Andrea Formisano, Davide Pett...
Metadata are widely used in order to fully exploit information resources available on corporate intranets or the Internet. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) aims at facilit...
Sofia Alexaki, Vassilis Christophides, Gregory Kar...
Flexible and efficient runtime design requires an understanding of the dependencies among the components internal to the runtime and those between the application and the runtime...