A Service Level Agreement (SLA) is an electronic contract between a service user and a provider, and specifies the service to be provided, Quality of Service (QoS) properties that...
Omer F. Rana, Martijn Warnier, Thomas B. Quillinan...
The behaviours of autonomous agents may deviate from those deemed to be for the good of the societal systems of which they are a part. Norms have therefore been proposed as a mean...
Sanjay Modgil, Noura Faci, Felipe Rech Meneguzzi, ...
We describe a reputation-driven market that motivates human computation sellers (workers) to produce optimal levels of quality when quality is not immediately measurable and contr...
A memory model for a shared memory, multiprocessor commonly and often implicitly assumed by programmers is that of sequential consistency. This model guarantees that all memory ac...
tract State Machines to Concurrent Transaction Logic Dumitru Roman1 , Michael Kifer2 , and Dieter Fensel1 1 STI Innsbruck, Austria 2 State University of New York at Stony Brook, US...