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KBS
2007
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13 years 5 months ago
A reusable commitment management service using Semantic Web technology
Commitment management is a key issue in service-provisioning in the context of virtual organisations (VOs). A service-provider — which may be a single agent acting within an orga...
Alun D. Preece, Stuart Chalmers, Craig McKenzie
COORDINATION
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Generalized Committed Choice
We present a generalized committed choice construct for concurrent programs that interact with a shared store. The generalized committed choice (GCC) allows multiple computations ...
Joxan Jaffar, Roland H. C. Yap, Kenny Qili Zhu
DALT
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Agreeing on Defeasible Commitments
Social commitments are developed for multi-agent systems according to the current practice in law regarding contract formation and breach. Deafeasible commitments are used to provi...
Ioan Alfred Letia, Adrian Groza
ISCA
2006
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Architectural Semantics for Practical Transactional Memory
Transactional Memory (TM) simplifies parallel programming by allowing for parallel execution of atomic tasks. Thus far, TM systems have focused on implementing transactional stat...
Austen McDonald, JaeWoong Chung, Brian D. Carlstro...
SCW
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Discovering Semantic Web Services with and without a Common Ontology Commitment
This paper presents an algorithm to match a semantic Web service request against semantic Web service advertisements. The algorithm is to be used by systems to discover semantic W...
Jorge Cardoso