One of the main concerns of IT governance is IT’s delivery of value to the business, which is driven by strategic business and IT alignment (SBITA). How to operationally assess ...
In this paper we propose an access control model for use by a trusted middleware infrastructure, which is part of an architecture that supports the operation of Location Based Serv...
Web Services (WS) technology is becoming pervasive in the development of distributed systems and is an appealing vehicle for service presentation and horizontal integration. On th...
Fei Cao, Barrett R. Bryant, Wei Zhao, Carol C. Bur...
Species distribution prediction modeling plays a key role in biodiversity research. We propose to publish both species distribution data and modeling components as Web services and...
Jianting Zhang, Deana Pennington, William Michener
Abstract. We present a formal model of negotiation between autonomous agents. The purpose of the negotiation is to reach an agreement about the provision of a service by one agent ...
Carles Sierra, Peyman Faratin, Nicholas R. Jenning...