Enforcing rich policies in open environments will increasingly require the ability to dynamically identify external sources of information necessary to enforce different policies (...
The Semantic Web is a vision of the next generation Web, in which semantic markup will make Web resources more accessible to automatic processes. Description Logics (DLs) are of cr...
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...
Web services are distributed processes with a public description of their behavior, or contract. The availability of repositories of Web service descriptions enables interesting f...
Abstract. The task of verifying the compatibility between interacting web services has traditionally been limited to checking the compatibility of the interaction protocol in terms...