- Ontology engineering has been proposed as a formal mechanism for both reducing the complexity of managing the information needed in network management and autonomic systems and f...
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...
An increasing number of business users and software applications need to process information that is accessible via multiple diverse information systems, such as database systems,...
Web processes must often operate in volatile environments where the quality of service parameters of the participating service providers change during the life time of the process...
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Xiaocong Fan, Karthikeyan Umapathy, John Yen, Sand...