The paper reports on ongoing research into the development of a management system to co-ordinate a set of activities of a virtual organisation for the production of chemicals. The...
Panayiotis Periorellis, Christopher J. W. Townson,...
Traditionally, companies aiming to achieve competition among suppliers have used sealed bidding procedures in their sourcing processes. The advances in information technology and i...
— Service compositions provide a promising way to realize and coordinate automated support for business activities and processes. These business processes and their automated sup...
Service and resource discovery has become an integral part of modern networked systems. In this survey we give an overview of the existing solutions for service and resource discov...
Near-ubiquitous smart phones are the most promising heralds of future pervasive computing. However, despite their increasing capabilities in computation, communication, and sensin...