The development of new services through the integration of existing ones has gained a considerable momentum as a means to create and streamline business-to-business collaborations...
Boualem Benatallah, Quan Z. Sheng, Anne H. H. Ngu,...
Multi-agent planning in stochastic environments can be framed formally as a decentralized Markov decision problem. Many real-life distributed problems that arise in manufacturing,...
Ontologies are becoming increasingly prevalent and important in a wide range of e-commerce applications. E-commerce applications are using ontologies to support parametric searches...
Federated transaction management (also known as multidatabase transaction management in the literature) is needed to ensure the consistency of data that is distributed across mult...