The provision of health-care services and home assistance to the elderly and chronic patients is a challenging application scenario for Web Services composition, which support the...
Liliana Ardissono, Antonio Di Leva, Giovanna Petro...
XML-centric models of computation have been proposed as an answer to the demand for interoperability, heterogeneity and openness in coordination models. We present a prototype imp...
Thomas T. Hildebrandt, Henning Niss, Martin Olsen,...
zing Mutually Referential Abstract Objects: The Value Recursion Challenge Don Syme 1 Microsoft Research, Cambridge, U.K. Mutual dependencies between objects arise frequently in pr...
Grid computing intends to share heterogeneous resources in dynamic service-based environments. This kind of systems has the major advantages of enabling rapid composition of distr...
Abstract. In complex multi agent systems, the agents may be heterogeneous and possibly designed by different programmers. Thus, the importance of defining a standard framework for ...