Workflow systems are an emerging technology which have become increasingly important in the drive for business to provide better services and increase productivity. Intuitively, w...
The advent of emerging technologies such as Web services, serviceoriented architecture, and cloud computing has enabled us to perform business services more efficiently and effec...
Jade is a language designed to support coarse-grain parallelism on both shared and distributed addressspace machines. Jade is data-oriented: a Jade programmer simply augments a se...
We consider a resource access control scenario in an open multi-agent system. We specify a mutable set of rules to determine how resource allocation is decided, and minimally assum...
Remote service invocation via HTTP and XML promises to become an important component of the Internet infrastructure. Work is ongoing in the W3C XML Protocol Working Group to define...
Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati,...