As the IT industry is becoming more and more interested in service oriented business models and upcoming technologies like Web Services or Grid Computing, the need for automated c...
In an e-service environment, contracts are important for attaining business process interoperability and enforcing their proper enactment. An e-contract is the computerized facili...
Abstract. The recent approval of the EU Services Directive is fostering the Internet of Services (IoS) and will promote the emergence of marketplaces for business and real-world se...
Josef Spillner, Matthias Winkler, Sandro Reichert,...
The European Commission's eEurope initiative aims to bring every citizen, home, school, business and administration online to create a digitally literate Europe. The value lie...
In this paper we evolve a rule based approach to SLA representation and management which allows separating the contractual business logic from the application logic and enables aut...