In the context of Service Oriented Computing behavioural contracts are descriptions of the observable message-passing behaviour of services. In other terms, contracts are behaviour...
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...
Identity management has arisen as a major and urgent challenge for internet-based communications and information services. Internet services involve complex networks of relationshi...
This paper describes the creation of a new analytical modeling capability by bringing together the Naval Simulation System (NSS) for sea strike and COMBATXXI for littoral and land...
Schema mappings are logical assertions that specify the relationships between a source and a target schema in a declarative way. The specification of such mappings is a fundamenta...