: A service contract typically specifies the service level, i.e., the quality parameters of the service to be performed. In addition to this static part, there is also the need to ...
Although Web services are intended for short term, ad hoc collaborations, in practice many Web service compositions are offered longterm to customers. While the Web services makin...
Lianne Bodenstaff, Andreas Wombacher, Manfred Reic...
This paper is about ...nancial contracting choices for the entrepreneur. In an incomplete contracts model, the entrepreneur can design contracts contingent on three possible contr...
The Semantic Grid aims at enhancing Grid architectures by knowledge engineering techniques. The service notion is central in this approach. Service-level agreements, called contrac...
Social commitments are developed for multi-agent systems according to the current practice in law regarding contract formation and breach. Deafeasible commitments are used to provi...