In recent years it has been argued that when XML encodings become complex, DOM trees are no longer adequate for query processing. Alternative representations of XML documents, suc...
Emerging Web services standards enable the development of large-scale applications in open environments. In particular, they enable services to be dynamically bound. However, curr...
Abstract. Often, decision making involves autonomous agents that are structured in a complex hierarchy, representing e.g. authority. Typically the agents share the same body of kno...
Stijn Heymans, Davy Van Nieuwenborgh, Dirk Vermeir
Service-based distributed computing as a mode of resource sharing is receiving increased attention, motivated both by enterprise applications and by standardization efforts in the...
Dawid Kurzyniec, Tomasz Wrzosek, Vaidy S. Sunderam
— Distributed applications require specific middleware support for semantics and run-time constraints for a wide range of hardware or software configurations. However, their fu...