Abstract Recently, languages such as BPEL and CDL have been proposed to describe the way services can interact from a behavioral perspective. The emergence of these languages heral...
Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Marlon Dumas, Chun Ouyang...
The new generation of open networked IT systems poses particular challenges to software engineering due to their evolving nature and their high quality requirements. In particular...
Abstract. Cooperation, a necessity for any peer-to-peer (P2P) cooperative service, is often achieved by rewarding good behavior now with the promise of future benefits. However, in...
Abstract. The current Web 2.0 stage of the Internet provided the basis for web-based communities and services aimed at collaboration and information sharing. Furthermore, Internet ...
Abstract. Many software applications are based on collaborating, yet competing, agents or virtual organisations exchanging services. Contracts, expressing obligations, permissions ...