Workflow Management Systems (WfMS) allow organizations to streamline and automate business processes and reengineer their structure. One important requirement for this type of syst...
: E-applications are increasingly being composed from individual services that can be realized with different technologies, such as, e.g., Web Services and standard component techn...
Contrary to current wireless network systems, ubiquitous network environment has quite dynamic and diversified devices which aim at best meeting the requirements of specific group ...
Hyo-Sung Kang, Jong-Mu Choi, Jai-Hoon Kim, Young-B...
Just as actions can have indirect effects on the state of the world, so too can sensing actions have indirect effects on an agent's state of knowledge. In this paper, we inve...
In automated negotiation systems consisting of self-interested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding. Leveled commitment contracts--i.e., contracts where each party ca...