This position paper argues that the mobile agents paradigm is a useful and important technology enabling pervasive and ubiquitous computing. Context awareness drives adaptability ...
Recently, several languages for web service composition have emerged (e.g., BPEL4WS and WSCI). The goal of these languages is to glue web services together in a process-oriented w...
Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Marlon Dumas, Arthur H. M...
In the last few years there has been much interest in the delivery of software-as-a-service. The concept of the remote delivery of software by Application Service Providers (ASPs)...
How do we know if we can afford a particular purchase? We can find out what the payments might be and check our balances on various accounts, but does this answer the question? Wh...
The need for Natural Language Interfaces to databases (NLIs) has become increasingly acute as more and more people access information through their web browsers, PDAs, and cell ph...