Agent technologies are now being considered for automating tasks in e-commerce applications. However, conventional software agents with predefined functions, but without the abilit...
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Effective management of Web Services systems relies on accurate understanding of end-to-end transaction flows, which may change over time as the service composition evolves. This ...
Ting Wang, Chang-Shing Perng, Tao Tao, Chunqiang T...
Transformation of data documents is of special importance to use XML as the universal data interchange format on the Web. Data transformation is used in many tasks that require dat...
When web servers publish data formatted in XML, only the current state of the data is (generally) published. But data evolves over time as it is updated. Capturing that evolution i...
Curtis E. Dyreson, Richard T. Snodgrass, Faiz Curr...
Web crawlers are increasingly used for focused tasks such as the extraction of data from Wikipedia or the analysis of social networks like last.fm. In these cases, pages are far m...
Franziska von dem Bussche, Klara A. Weiand, Benedi...