From a multiagent viewpoint, a workflow is a dynamic set of tasks performed by a set of agents to reach a shared goal. We show herein that commitments among agents can be used to ...
RPC is one of the programming models envisioned for the Grid. In Internet connected Large Scale Grids such as Desktop Grids, nodes and networks failures are not rare events. This ...
This paper proposes a calculus for describing communication-centred programs and discusses its use through a formal description of several use cases from real business protocols. ...
The rapid growth of social networking sites and web communities have motivated web sites to expose their APIs to external developers who create mashups by assembling existing func...
The global scenario put together by communication networks determines new opportunities towards the realization of Internetbased distributed services in many complex and composite...