In e-commerce, for some cases the service requested by the consumer cannot be fulfilled by the producer. In such cases, service consumers and producers need to negotiate their ser...
—Popular online services such as social networks, e-commerce and bidding are routinely hosted in large-scale data centers. Group communication systems (e.g., multicast) and distr...
Karthik Nagaraj, Hitesh Khandelwal, Charles Edwin ...
The growing infrastructure for Web Services assumes a "programmer in the loop" that hardcodes the connections between Web Services and directly programs Web Service comp...
Massimo Paolucci, Katia P. Sycara, Takahiro Kawamu...
The recent evolution of Internet, driven by the Web services technology, is extending the role of the Web from a support of information interaction to a middleware for B2B interac...
Service-Oriented Computing and Agent Technology are nowadays two of the most active research fields in distributed and open systems. However, when trying to bridge the two worlds,...