In the context of Service Oriented Computing, contracts are descriptions of the externally observable behaviour of services. Given a group of collaborating services, their contract...
Abstract. Many software applications are based on collaborating, yet competing, agents or virtual organisations exchanging services. Contracts, expressing obligations, permissions ...
A call center with both contract and non-contract customers was giving priority to the contract customers only in off-peak hours, precisely when having priority was least importan...
AbstractAbstractAbstractAbstract A design and pilot implementation of a system, called InterProcs, supporting electronic contracting is presented. A key concept in the design of th...
An adaptation contract describes composition constraints and adaptation requirements among several services which were not initially built to interoperate with each other. The man...