Web services are self-contained, modular units of application logic which provide business functionality to other applications via Internet connections. Several models have been u...
In recent times a new kind of computing system has emerged: a distributed infrastructure composed of multiple physical sites in different administrative domains. This model introd...
Stephen Childs, Marco Emilio Poleggi, Charles Loom...
In most of the existing approaches to the design of multiagent systems, there is no clear way in which to relate organisational and normative structures to the model of the enviro...
Some "non-' or "extra-functional" features, such as reliability, security, and tracing, defy modularization mechanisms in programming languages. This makes suc...
Eric Wohlstadter, Stoney Jackson, Premkumar T. Dev...
One approach to moderating the expected behaviour of agents in open societies is the use of explicit languages for defining norms, conditional commitments and/or social expectation...