The agent paradigm includes the notion that agents interact with services. This paper identifies the need for controlled access to such services, from the perspective of agent sys...
Benno J. Overeinder, P. D. Verkaik, Frances M. T. ...
Integrating service description, discovery, and invocation functionalities presents several fundamental problems in the management of web services and is a basic problem for compo...
Anna Sibirtseva, Zhongnan Shen, Jianwen Su, Fulian...
Autonomic, i.e. dynamic and fault-tolerant Web service composition is a requirement resulting from recent developments such as on-demand services. In the context of planning-based...
Client request rates for Internet services tend to be bursty and thus it is important to maintain efficient resource utilization under a wide range of load conditions. Network ser...
: Solutions in the network and service management layers of telecommunications management architectures are currently fragmented both in terms of standards and products. It is ofte...
David Lewis, Chris Malbon, George Pavlou, Costas S...