Ubiquitous access to sophisticated internet services from diverse end devices across heterogeneous networks requires the injection of additional functionality into the network to ...
Business Processes for Web Services are the new paradigm for the lightweight integration of business from different enterprises. Whereas the security and access control policies ...
We study stochastic models to mitigate the risk of poor Quality-of-Service (QoS) in computational markets. Consumers who purchase services expect both price and performance guaran...
Abstract—Querying non-conventional data sources is recognized as a major issue in new environments and applications such as those occurring in pervasive computing. A key issue is...
This paper presents a logic based language, SAFIN, for developing networked software agents. It integrates agent-oriented programming, KQML and basic mobile techniques to support ...