The Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP) is a joint standardization effort by ITU-T and ISO/IEC for the specification of large open distributed systems. RM-ODP ...
With the rapid growth of XML-document traffic on the Internet, scalable content-based dissemination of XML documents to a large, dynamic group of consumers has become an important...
We propose a general framework for multi-context reasoning which allows us to combine arbitrary monotonic and nonmonotonic logics. Nonmonotonic bridge rules are used to specify th...
—Service-oriented computing promotes collaboration by defining the standards layer that allows compatibility between disparate domains. Workflows, by taking advantage of the serv...
Mine Altunay, Douglas E. Brown, Gregory T. Byrd, R...
Abstract. Constraints and preferences are ubiquitous in real-life. Moreover, preferences can be of many kinds: qualitative, quantitative, conditional, positive or negative, to name...