In this paper we evolve a rule based approach to SLA representation and management which allows separating the contractual business logic from the application logic and enables aut...
— Industry is more and more interested in executing business functions that span multiple applications. This demands high-levels of interoperability and a more flexible and adapt...
Over recent years there has been increased level of discussion on utility pricing for software. The focus of these discussions is to create new operating cost models where the unit...
Web services provide abstractions for simplifying integration at lower levels of the interaction stacks, they don't yet help simplify integration at higher abstraction levels ...
This paper presents an architecture and a methodology for agent-based Web service discovery and automated composition. We assume that Web services are described with declarative sp...