In this work, we present a framework for the semantic composition of web services based on Statecharts and uniform community service descriptions. Our model is a two step process....
Temporally extended goals (TEGs) refer to properties that must hold over intermediate and/or final states of a plan. The problem of planning with TEGs is of renewed interest becau...
Software agents offer a promise to change electronic commerce trading by helping traders to purchase products based on their interests and preferences. E-commerce systems are incr...
paper, we present an abstract formal model of decision-making in a social setting that covers all aspects of the process, from recognition of a potential for cooperation through t...
Pietro Panzarasa, Nicholas R. Jennings, Timothy J....
XPORT is a profile-driven distributed data dissemination system that supports an extensible set of data types, profiles types, and optimization metrics. XPORT efficiently implemen...