Most foundational models for global computing have focused on the spatial dimension of computations, however global computing requires also new ways of thinking about the temporal ...
Gian Luigi Ferrari, Eugenio Moggi, Rosario Puglies...
A virtual organization (VO) is a dynamic collection of entities (individuals, enterprises, and information resources) collaborating on some computational activity. VOs are an emer...
In this paper, we consider the problem of composing a set of web services, where the requirements are specified in terms of the input and output messages of the composite workfl...
The development of Web Services has transformed the World Wide Web into a more application-aware information portal. The various standards ensure that Web Services are interpretabl...
In a reputation-based trust-management system, agents maintain information about the past behaviour of other agents. This information is used to guide future trust-based decisions...