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CCGRID
2003
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Creating Services with Hard Guarantees from Cycle-Harvesting Systems
Abstract— Cycle-harvesting software on commodity computers is available from a number of companies and a significant part of the Grid computing landscape. However, creating comm...
Chris Kenyon, Giorgos Cheliotis
ICECCS
2007
IEEE
95views Hardware» more  ICECCS 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
A Formal Contract Language for Plugin-based Software Engineering
Abstract—Plugin-based application design has become increasingly popular in recent years, and has contributed to the success of a range of very different applications including ...
Jens Dietrich, John G. Hosking, Jonathan Giles
WWW
2003
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
SweetDeal: representing agent contracts with exceptions using XML rules, ontologies, and process descriptions
SweetDeal is a rule-based approach to representation of business contracts that enables software agents to create, evaluate, negotiate, and execute contracts with substantial auto...
Benjamin N. Grosof, Terrence C. Poon
MAGS
2008
104views more  MAGS 2008»
13 years 7 months ago
Retractable contract network for empowerment in workforce scheduling
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...
COOPIS
2004
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Implementing QoS Aware Component-Based Applications
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...
Avraam Chimaris, George A. Papadopoulos