The paper presents the S.E.A.L. query language and interpreter for entity-association queries that allows such queries to be expressed in a much simpler way than in SQL. S.E.A.L (...
Abstract— Composition of web services is much studied to support business-to-business and enterprise application integration in e-Commerce. Current web service composition approa...
Maurice H. ter Beek, Antonio Bucchiarone, Stefania...
Future agent mediated eCommerce will involve open systems of agents interoperating between different institutions, where different auction protocols may be in use. We argue that i...
Business rules are often implemented as stored procedures in a database server. These procedures are triggered by various clients, but the execution load is fully centralized on th...
The market for Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) is growing rapidly and PDAs are becoming increasingly interesting for commercial transactions. One requirement for further growing ...