Abstract. We claim that user preferences are a key component of effective Web service composition, and one that has largely been ignored. In this paper we propose a means of speci...
Shirin Sohrabi, Nataliya Prokoshyna, Sheila A. McI...
Planning a new logistics center is a quite difficult job. Depending on the requirements there are a great number of possible design versions. The planner has to consider not only ...
Alexander Ulbrich, Stefan Galka, Willibald A. G&uu...
Agents are an emerging technology that grants programmers a new way to exploit distributed resources. Roles are a powerful concept that can be used to model agent interactions, all...
Communication devices aim to provide a multimedia service without spatial or temporal limitations in an IP-based environment. However, it is incapable of allowing for fair use by c...
—Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and commonly virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet. This paper, first presents ...