With increasingly complex and heterogeneous systems in pervasive service computing, it becomes more and more important to provide self-protected services to end users. In order to ...
Web service-based workflow management systems have garnered considerable attention for automating and scheduling dependent operations. Such systems often support user preferences,...
David Chiu, Sagar Deshpande, Gagan Agrawal, Rongxi...
The Grid provides infrastructure that allows an arbitrary application to be executed on a range of different computational resources. When input files are very large, or when faul...
Ubiquitous environments facilitate the collection of information pieces from sensors, databases, or mobile devices in order to compose the context of entities like users, places, o...
We address the problem of constructing multiagent systems by coordinating heterogeneous, autonomous agents, whose internal designs may not be fully known. A major application area...