On first glance agent technology seems more like a hostile intruder into the database world. On the other hand, the two could easily complement each other, since agents carry out ...
The rapid development of network technologies has made the web a huge information source with its own characteristics. In most cases, traditional database-based technologies are no...
Despite the increasing maturity of model-driven development (MDD), some research challenges remain open in the field of information systems (IS). For instance, there is a need to i...
Generally, web services are provided with different QoS values, so they can be selected dynamically in service composition process. However, the conventional context free composit...
Tao Zhou, Xiaolin Zheng, William Wei Song, Xiaofen...
— Supporting business services through Web service compositions (WSC) as part of service-oriented architectures (SOA) involves business performance monitoring requirements. Their...