The advent of emerging technologies such as Web services, serviceoriented architecture, and cloud computing has enabled us to perform business services more efficiently and effec...
Abstract. At present, network users have to manage a set of authentication credentials (usually a username/password pair) for every service with which they are registered. Single S...
This paper will explore the SNet model that Hunter College of the City University of New York developed and implemented. During the Spring of 2002, CUNY as a central organization ...
This paper is about business modelling and negotiation protocol design in distributed scheduling, where individual agents have individual (potentially conflicting) interests. It i...
Edward P. K. Tsang, Timothy Gosling, Botond Virgin...
Agents are an emerging technology that grants programmers a new way to exploit distributed resources. Roles are a powerful concept that can be used to model agent interactions, all...