In this paper, we identify the different roles and contract types which are important in providing Quality of Service (QoS) properties of component-based systems. A surprising res...
— Web services orchestrations and choreographies require establishing Quality of Service (QoS) contracts with the user. This is achieved by performing QoS composition, based on c...
Sidney Rosario, Albert Benveniste, Stefan Haar, Cl...
The availability of repositories of Web service descriptions enables interesting forms of dynamic Web service discovery, such as searching for Web services exposing a specified beh...
In the context of Service Oriented Computing, contracts are descriptions of the externally observable behaviour of services. Given a group of collaborating services, their contract...
Abstract. Many software applications are based on collaborating, yet competing, agents or virtual organisations exchanging services. Contracts, expressing obligations, permissions ...