Data intensive applications, e.g. in life sciences, pose new efficiency challenges to the service composition problem. Since today computing power is mainly increased by multiplica...
The most important recent development in Grid systems is the adoption of the Web services model as a basic architecture for Grid services. The result is called the Open Grid Servi...
Today’s information technologies, such as autonomic computing, offer companies new ways to do businesses. Those that fail to embrace and use such advantages in the next years ar...
In Service-Oriented MAS middle-agents provide different kinds of matchmaking functionalities. If no adequate services are available for a specific request, a planning functionalit...
Due to the large success of wireless networks and handheld devices, the ambient intelligence (AmI) paradigm is becoming a reality. One of the most challenging objectives to achiev...
Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Jinshan Liu, Nikolaos Georganta...