The notion of application – a single, bounded piece of functionality presented to users – goes almost unquestioned. However in the context of highly adaptive and ambient system...
Abstract: Web service technology offers a promising approach for realizing enterprisewide and cross-organizational business applications. With the Business Process Execution Langua...
BPEL/WSBPEL is the predominant approach for combining individual web services into integrated business processes, allowing for the specification of their sequence, control flow an...
The integration of the telephone network and the internet enables convergence of voice and data services. The explosion of information appliances also provides new service opportun...
This paper presents an approach to create POMDP models, used for decision making by an autonomous service robot, from background knowledge. This allows the power of POMDP decision ...