— Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is a promising means to integrate heterogeneous systems. Services from different providers can be integrated into a composite service regardles...
Multiagent systems (MAS) research is well established yet there is little development of agent technology in industry. It has been suggested that this is due, in part, to the unav...
Credentials are an indispensable means for service access control in electronic commerce. However, regular credentials such as X.509 certificates and SPKI/SDSI certificates do no...
Distributed programming has shifted from private networks to the Internet using heterogeneous Web APIs. This enables the creation of situational applications of composed services ...
Data centers constructed as clusters of inexpensive machines have compelling cost-performance benefits, but developing services to run on them can be challenging. This paper repo...