This paper is about business modelling and negotiation protocol design in distributed scheduling, where individual agents have individual (potentially conflicting) interests. It i...
Edward P. K. Tsang, Timothy Gosling, Botond Virgin...
By QoS (Quality of Service), we often refer to a set of quality requirements on the collective behavior of one or more objects. These requirements enable the provision of better se...
In open systems, independent services exist in administrative domains outside that of the consumers of those services. Current standards exist to create management interfaces to a...
Recent research in e-contracts is concerned with the development of frameworks and tools to support contracts. EREC framework is one that enables modelling and deployment of e-con...
Anushree Khandekar, P. Radha Krishna, Kamalakar Ka...
Service orientation is a means for integrating across diverse systems. Each resource, whether an application, system, or trading partner, can be accessed as a service. The resultin...
Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Niels Lohmann, Peter Mass...