Considering a broad definition for service contracts (beyond web services and software, e.g. airline tickets and insurance policies), we tackle the challenges of building a high ...
Once the decision to outsource an activity has been made, managers are faced with issues related to the management of the relationship with their service providers. A critical ele...
Benoit Aubert, Jean-Francois Houde, Michel Patry, ...
This paper presents an approach that provides the necessary assistance to those who are in charge of engineering communities of Web services. Current practices indicate that Web se...
Sattanathan Subramanian, Philippe Thiran, Zakaria ...
A fundamental promise of service oriented architecture (SOA) lies in the ease of integrating sharable information, processes, and other resources through interactions among the sha...
Jianwen Su, Tevfik Bultan, Xiang Fu, Xiangpeng Zha...
Electronic contracts describe inter-organizational business processes in terms of supply and consumption of electronic services (commonly Web services). In a given contract domain,...
Marcelo Fantinato, Itana Maria de Souza Gimenes, M...