Computer security, and intrusion detection in particular, has become increasingly important in today's business environment, to help ensure safe and trusted commerce between ...
Current Web services standards enable publishing service descriptions and finding services by matching requested and published descriptions based on syntactic criteria such as me...
This paper reports on a research study concerning the integration of electronic commerce (EC) into the pre-sales business processes of small firms. By means of a field survey, 17 ...
In this paper a theory of delegation is presented. There are at least three reasons for developing such a theory. First, one of the most relevant notions of "agent" is b...
Abstract. We address the challenge of adaptation in open systems. Open systems are characterized by interactions among autonomous and heterogeneous participants. In such systems, e...
Fabiano Dalpiaz, Amit K. Chopra, Paolo Giorgini, J...