In the last 10 years several approaches and technologies other than MAS (such as Web services and Grid computing) have emerged, with the support of the industry, providing their o...
Service-Oriented Computing allows new applications to be developed by using and/or combining services offered by different providers. In several cases a service needs sensitive in...
In pervasive computing, devices or peers may implement or compose services using services from other devices or peers, and may use components from various sources. A composition t...
Web services and service oriented architectures are becoming the de facto standard for Internet computing. A main problem faced by users of such services is how to ensure that the...
—In this paper we present an autonomic web services architecture that manages both the performance of service containers and the interconnection of those containers into a servic...