The increasing number of infrastructure services requires the existence of mechanisms to discover and select services and resources, called service broker, based on customer requir...
Peer-to-peer networks and grids offer promising paradigms for developing efficient distributed systems and applications. Event-based middleware is becoming a core architectural el...
Resource brokering in Grids is nowadays handled by resource brokers that require detailed knowledge of the state of the resources that they broker. In business settings, surrender...
In the business Grid environment, the business relationship between a customer and a service provider should be clearly defined. The responsibility of each partner can be stated in...
There are an increasing number of initiatives for the migration of agents research towards new Internet technologies such as the semantic web, Grid, and web services. On the one h...
Shamimabi Paurobally, Chris van Aart, Valentina A....