Web services have emerged as a new paradigm that supports loosely-coupled distributed systems in service discovery and service execution. Next generation web services will evolve ...
Integrating multiple functions into one communication user agent can introduce many innovative communication services. For example, with networked appliance control, a user agent c...
This paper presents a Web-based, database-oriented set of applications, namely "Public Information" and "Electronic Voting", to support information services (ex...
We address the problem of constructing multiagent systems by coordinating heterogeneous, autonomous agents, whose internal designs may not be fully known. A major application area...
Abstract. Features provide extensions to a basic service, but in new systems users require much greater flexibility oriented towards their needs. Traditional features do not easil...