While OWL-S advertisements provide a rich (ontological and behavioural) description of Web services, there are no tools that support formal analyses of OWL-S services. In this pape...
Service Level Agreements (SLA) include quality of service (QoS) constraints and bounds that have to be honoured by the service provider. To maximise the Service Provider revenue wh...
Mike J. Boniface, Stephen C. Phillips, Alfonso S&a...
Abstract. In inter-enterprise business service collaborations management of nonfunctional properties has become a fundamental issue, as business management and computing infrastruc...
Abstract. An important architectural style for constructing enterprise applications is to use transactional workflows in SOA. In this setting, workflow activities invoke distribute...
Olaf Zimmermann, Jonas Grundler, Stefan Tai, Frank...
Abstract. A stochastic extension of COWS is presented. First the formalism is given an operational semantics leading to finitely branching transition systems. Then its syntax and ...
Model checking Web service behaviour has remained limited to checking safety and liveness properties. However when viewed as a multi agent system, the system composition can be ana...
Alessio Lomuscio, Hongyang Qu, Marek J. Sergot, Mo...
Abstract. In this paper, we present the mechanisms needed for Byzantine fault tolerant coordination of Web services atomic transactions. The mechanisms have been incorporated into ...