Recently a new model agent-based e-commerce system was proposed, in which rule-based mechanism representation was combined with lightweight modular mobile agent design. Furthermor...
The complex business environment requires managing business processes with the ability to adapt to changes and to collaborate in activities. Conventional workflow approaches based...
UN/CEFACT’s Modelling Methodology (UMM) is used to analyze and design B2B business processes. We extend UMM by a constraint mechanism for adding business environment-specific co...
In today’s businesses, there is a trend that serviceoriented architecture (SOA) is evolving into a popular architectural paradigm for IT infrastructure. SOA allows companies’ ...
M. Brian Blake, William Kwok-Wai Cheung, Michael C...
— In today's competitive environment, analysing data to predict market trends of products and services and to improve the performance of enterprise systems is an essential b...
Ben Azvine, Zhan Cui, Detlef Nauck, Basim A. Majee...
In the context of electronic commerce, recommender systems enable merchants to assist customers in finding available products that will best satisfy their need. However, a recomm...
We present a dynamic and distributed approach to the hospital patient scheduling problem: the multi-agent Pareto-improvement appointment exchanging algorithm, MPAEX. It respects t...
Ivan B. Vermeulen, Sander M. Bohte, D. J. A. Somef...
Success in today’s marketing arena can often depend on companies embracing effective new technologies and integrating them into their business model. In the computing service su...
E-contracts are used to describe the supply and the consumption details of e-services within a business process. The establishment of e-contracts in a given application domain usu...
Marcelo Fantinato, Maria Beatriz Felgar de Toledo,...
Self-Healing and self-optimizing service based applications are important steps towards the self-organizing Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). Self-Organizing SOAs replace serv...