A voting protocol for decision-making in virtual organizations is presented. In an agent-based virtual organization the functions of formation, management and dissolution of the o...
Jeremy V. Pitt, Lloyd Kamara, Marek J. Sergot, Ale...
Abstract. The formal development of industrial-size software is an errorprone and therefore an evolutionary process. Verifying formal specifications usually reveals hidden errors ...
Abstract. With increased sophistication and standardization of modeling languages and execution platforms supporting business process management (BPM) across traditional boundaries...
Alistair P. Barros, Marlon Dumas, Arthur H. M. ter...
The growing number of web services advocates distributed discovery infrastructures which are semantics-enabled and support quality of service (QoS). In this paper, we introduce a n...
More than two decades ago, DB researchers faced up to the question of how to design a data-independent database management system (DBMS), that is, a DBMS which offers an appropriat...