The Differentiated Services architecture targets at providing scalable network Quality of Service by means of aggregate scheduling. However, the defined framework itself only give...
Ensuring transactional behavior of business processes and web service compositions is an essential issue in the area of serviceoriented computing. Transactions in this context may ...
In this paper, we present a social model for software agent conversations for action based on social commitments and their negotiation. We depart from the premises that conversati...
Since the beginning of the 1990's, the Internet has constantly grown, proposing more and more services and sources of information. The challenge is no longer to provide users ...
: Mass customization has become one of the key strategies for a service provider to differentiate itself from its competitors in a highly segmented global service market. This pape...
Jian Cao, Jie Wang, Kincho H. Law, Shen-sheng Zhan...