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...
Reliable and atomic transactions are a key to successful eBusiness interactions. Reliable messaging subsystems, such as IBM’s MQ Series, or broker-based techniques have been tra...
We consider a market with two suppliers and a set of buyers in search of procurement contracts with one of the suppliers. In particular, each buyer needs to process a certain volu...
Real-time enterprises rely on user queries being answered in a timely fashion and using fresh data. This is relatively easy when systems are lightly loaded and both queries and upd...
This paper deals with the modeling and the automatic implementation of constraints in component based applications. Constraints have been assuming an ever more relevant role in mod...
Antonio Coronato, Antonio d'Acierno, Diego D'Ambro...