The deployment of multi-agent systems demands for justified confidence into their behaviour, both with respect to correct results of computations and with respect to timeliness t...
Although informative, the semantic definition proposed for the most standard agent communication language (FIPA ACL 1997) is complicated and contentious, while published interact...
Shamimabi Paurobally, Jim Cunningham, Nicholas R. ...
This paper presents an approach that provides the necessary assistance to those who are in charge of engineering communities of Web services. Current practices indicate that Web se...
Sattanathan Subramanian, Philippe Thiran, Zakaria ...
Recent work in communications and business modeling emphasizes a commitment-based view of interaction. By abstracting away from implementation-level details, commitments can poten...
When information services are organized to provide some composed functionality, their interactions can be formally represented as workflows. Traditionally, workflows are executed...