— The usual scenario of service oriented systems is characterized by several services offering the same functionalities, by new services that are continuosly deployed and by othe...
There are an increasing number of initiatives for the migration of agents research towards new Internet technologies such as the semantic web, Grid, and web services. On the one h...
Shamimabi Paurobally, Chris van Aart, Valentina A....
SweetDeal is a rule-based approach to representation of business contracts that enables software agents to create, evaluate, negotiate, and execute contracts with substantial auto...
From a multiagent viewpoint, a workflow is a dynamic set of tasks performed by a set of agents to reach a shared goal. We show herein that commitments among agents can be used to ...
Self-management is one of the challenges for realizing Ambient Intelligence in pervasive computing. In this paper, we propose and present a semantic web based selfmanagement appro...