Loose coupling is often cited as a defining characteristic of service-oriented architectures. Interactions between services take place via messages in an asynchronous environment ...
—This paper presents a novel approach to model a complex evolving system, a Digital Business Ecosystem (DBE) that takes the specific needs of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises ...
We present methods employed in COORDINATE, a prototype service that supports collaboration and communication by learning predictive models that provide forecasts of users' pr...
Joe Tullio, James Begole, Eric Horvitz, Elizabeth ...
Emerging large scale utility computing systems like Grids promise computing and storage to be provided to end users as a utility. System management services deployed in the middle...
Agents are becoming a popular technology for the development of distributed, heterogeneous and always available systems. In those systems, interactions are essential, but semantic ...