The rapid growth of XML adoption has urged for the need of a proper representation for semi-structured documents, where the document structural information has to be taken into ac...
Service oriented architectures facilitate loosely coupled collaborations, which are established in a decentralized way. One challenge for such collaborations is to guarantee consi...
Comprehensive contractual description of Web Services and Web Service compositions is needed for selection of appropriate Web Services and their service and quality of service (Qo...
With the advance of E-Commerce over Web-based information, the interoperability of isolated XML repositories and databases over the Internet has drawn an increasing interest recen...
Guang-Lei Song, Kang Zhang, Bhavani M. Thuraisingh...
This paper reports on a system for automated agent negotiation. It uses the JADE agent framework, and its major distinctive feature is the use of declarative negotiation strategie...
Thomas Skylogiannis, Grigoris Antoniou, Nick Bassi...
Currently negotiation covers a huge and unstructured domain of negotiation- and coordination protocols and associated strategies. Researchers and practitioners like system enginee...
As the IT industry is becoming more and more interested in service oriented business models and upcoming technologies like Web Services or Grid Computing, the need for automated c...
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...