Online trading invariably involves dealings between strangers, so it is important for one party to be able to judge objectively the trustworthiness of the other. In such a setting,...
Web Services are becoming the prominent paradigm for distributed computing and electronic businesses. This makes natural the extension of the concepts at the base of the workflow ...
Francesco Calabrese, Giovanni Di Dio, Anna Rita Fa...
Information integration and retrieval are useful tasks in many information systems. In these systems, it is far from an easy task to directly integrate information from natural lan...
Many applications have one or more important modules that are written in a language other than conventional procedural or object oriented languages. These languages are often tran...
Describing an application as a simple composition of services allows advanced features that exploit different platforms to be conceived e formalized at a high abstraction level. S...