A variety of business relationships in open settings can be understood in terms of the creation and manipulation of commitments among the participants. These include B2C and B2B c...
Reliability is a critical issue in many multi-organizational distributed applications, be they web services, financial protocols, scientific computing infrastructure, and software ...
Laura Bocchi, Kohei Honda, Emilio Tuosto, Nobuko Y...
Abstract. Description Logics are a family of class based knowledge representation formalisms characterised by the use of various constructors to build complex classes from simpler ...
Ontologies are set to play a key role in the "Semantic Web", extending syntactic interoperability to semantic interoperability by providing a source of shared and precise...
Although web services are generally envisioned as being stateless, some of them are implicitly stateful. The reason is that the web services often work as front-ends to enterprise...