The evolution towards IP-aware access networks creates the possibility (and, indeed, the desirability) of additional network services, like firewalling or NAT, integrated into th...
Tom Verdickt, Wim Van de Meerssche, Koert Vlaeminc...
When designing a publicly available Web service, a service designer has to take care of costs and revenue caused by this services. In the very beginning possible partners might onl...
Service-based approaches (such as Web Services and the Open Grid Services Architecture) have gained considerable attention recently for supporting distributed application developme...
M. Nedim Alpdemir, Arijit Mukherjee, Norman W. Pat...
Actors coordinate their cooperative efforts by acting on the evidence of work previously accomplished. The paper introduces, on the basis of a field study, the concept of stigmerg...
Service discovery systems enable distributed components to find each other without prior arrangement, to express capabilities and needs, to aggregate into useful compositions, an...
Christopher Dabrowski, Kevin Mills, Stephen Quirol...