Contracts are behavioural descriptions of Web services. We devise a theory of contracts that formalises the compatibility of a client to a service, and the safe replacement of a s...
—Research in the field of semantic Web services aims at automating the discovery, selection, composition and management of Web services based on semantic descriptions. However, t...
Goals are often used to represent stakeholder’s objectives. The intentionality inherited by a goal drives stakeholders to pursuit the fulfillment of their goals either by themse...
Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, Giancarlo Guizz...
Real-time data services can benefit data-intensive real-time applications, e.g., e-commerce, via timely transaction processing using fresh data, e.g., the current stock prices. T...
— Broadband access for all will be a key functionality in future mobile radio networks. Depending on the length and the characteristic of the radio wave propagation the performan...