The GEMSS project has developed a service-oriented Grid that supports the provision of medical simulation services by service providers to clients such as hospitals. We outline the...
Stuart E. Middleton, Mike Surridge, Siegfried Benk...
In this paper, we present a combined study of price competition and traffic control in a congested network. We study a model in which service providers own the routes in a network...
: The increasing ubiquity of wireless mobile devices is promoting unprecedented levels of electronic collaboration among devices interoperating to achieve a common goal. Issues rel...
Radu Handorean, Rohan Sen, Gregory Hackmann, Gruia...
For a given service demand, it is necessary to select a suitable service provider among many possibilities. An accurate selection is difficult when consumers do not have a signi...
Murat Sensoy, F. Canan Pembe, Hande Zirtiloglu, Pi...
Today’s Internet Service Providers (ISPs) serve two roles: managing their network infrastructure and providing (arguably limited) services to end users. We argue that coupling t...
Evaluating web services provisioning is able to reduce redundancy in search and also generates advantages to service providers who deliver valuable services. However, there exist ...
The management of one-to-one business interaction is challenged by the latency in the acquisition of information about the individual customer's preferences. Although sharing ...
Barbara Negro, Angelo Difino, Fabio Bellifemine, G...
: The notion of service is closely coupled with the notion of process in general and of workflow in particular. Processes capture the coordination logic for the various resources i...
This paper considers a distributed system of software agents who cooperate in helping their users to find services, provided by different agents. The agents need to ensure that th...