Abstract. The creation of distributed applications requires sophisticated compositions, as various components — supporting application logic or non-functional requirements — mu...
Abstract. Protocols that govern the interactions between software components are a popular means to support the construction of correct component-based systems. Previous studies ha...
In this paper we introduce Web Objects in XML (WOX) as a web protocol for distributed objects, which uses HTTP as its transport protocol and XML as its format representation. It al...
Component-based middleware frameworks that support distributed agent societies have proven to be very useful in a variety of domains. Such frameworks must include support for both ...
John A. Zinky, Richard Shapiro, Sarah Siracuse, To...
Semantic Web technologies have in recent years started to also find their way into the world of commercial enterprises. Enterprise ontologies can be used as a basis for determinin...
Abstract. In the engineering domain, the development of complex products (e.g., cars) necessitates the coordination of thousands of (sub-)processes. One of the biggest challenges f...