A new methodology is presented in this paper for resource management in a metacomputing environment using a hierarchy of homogeneous agents that has the capability of service disco...
As the number of available Web services increases, there is a growing demand to find the service that best fits the user's requirements. Especially, when a set of services fu...
The management of network services is a time- and resource- consuming activity. In this paper we discuss an organizational model that reduces the cost of managing Internet Service...
The purpose of this paper is to describe the work in progress related to the customisation, the trial and the evaluation of an innovative e-learning platform for manager upgrade i...
Commitment management is a key issue in service-provisioning in the context of virtual organisations (VOs). A service-provider — which may be a single agent acting within an orga...