Commitment management is a key issue in service-provisioning in the context of virtual organisations (VOs). A service-provider — which may be a single agent acting within an orga...
— With the mutual consent to use WSDL (Web Service Description Language) to describe web service interfaces and SOAP as the basic communication protocol, the cornerstone for web ...
Christian Emig, Frank Brandt, Sebastian Abeck, J&u...
: Search is probably the most frequent activity on the Web. Yet it is not effortless, mainly due to heterogeneous information resources. Semantic search is a means to tackle the pr...
— One of the benefits of web services is their ability to participate in a web services composition process. Therefore, an end-to-end QoS infrastructure should be established. W...
Electronic contracts describe inter-organizational business processes in terms of supply and consumption of electronic services (commonly Web services). In a given contract domain,...
Marcelo Fantinato, Itana Maria de Souza Gimenes, M...