Business matching and collaboration support systems are useful, in particular for small-and-medium companies. Most of them developed so far are based on the server-client architect...
— Service Oriented Architectures with underlying technologies like web services and web services orchestration have opened the door to a wide range of novel application scenarios...
Open component architectures, such as CORBA, allow software systems to be composed of independent components. The behavior of components is described with a mixture of an interfac...
This paper presents TPCC-UVa, an open-source implementation of the TPC-C benchmark intended to be used in parallel and distributed systems. TPCC-UVa is written entirely in C langu...
In this paper we consider how a BDI agent might determine its best course of action. We draw on previous work which has presented a model of persuasion over action and we discuss ...
Katie Atkinson, Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Peter Mc...