As Service-Oriented Computing is gaining mainstream adoption, Services are emerging as core-building blocks of today's applications. In particular, web services have become t...
From a multiagent viewpoint, a workflow is a dynamic set of tasks performed by a set of agents to reach a shared goal. We show herein that commitments among agents can be used to ...
Guidelines for clinical practice are being introduced in an extensive way in more and more different fields of medicine They have the potential to improve the quality and cost-effi...
Dozens of temporal extension of the relational data model and of the query language SQL have appeared in recent years. Recently, a committee formed by researchers from the academi...
In order to build complex, large-scale, dependable systems it is necessary to use a development environment with an integrated set of capabilities that supports editing and formal...
Lian Wen, Robert Colvin, Kai Lin, John Seagrott, N...