Most agent systems today are closed and static. That is, one uses Agent-Oriented Software Engineering techniques to build agent systems in which the set of agents is specified ahe...
Video on Demand (VoD) services are very appealing these days. In this work, we discuss four distinct alternatives for the architecture of a VoD server and compare their performanc...
Daniela Alvim Seabra dos Santos, Alex Borges Vieir...
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...
—The performance of BPEL processes depends on the composing web services. Monitoring web service performance and adapting to changes in service performance are essential for crea...
When dealing with dynamic component environments such as the OSGi Service Platform, where components can come from different sources and may be known only during runtime, evaluatin...