— Web services orchestrations and choreographies require establishing Quality of Service (QoS) contracts with the user. This is achieved by performing QoS composition, based on c...
Sidney Rosario, Albert Benveniste, Stefan Haar, Cl...
Information extraction from large data repositories is critical to Information Management solutions. In addition to prerequisite corpus analysis, to determine domain-specific char...
Youssef Drissi, Branimir Boguraev, David Ferrucci,...
Abstract. While past research in service oriented computing has focused on the fairly static functional description and the operators of services the dynamic and flexible compositi...
This paper addresses multi agent system (MAS) environments from an application perspective. It presents a structured view on environment-centric MAS applications. This comprises th...
Paul Valckenaers, John A. Sauter, Carles Sierra, J...
The work described in this paper presents an approach on scheduling in a virtual enterprise in the tourism sector. This scheduling scenario has to reconcile customers' and ser...