Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) are an appealing visual formalism mainly used in the early stages of system design to capture the system requirements. However, if we move towards a...
Counterterrorism and intelligence tasks rely on the efficient collection, analysis and dissemination of information. While information systems play a key role in such tasks, databa...
Discovery is a central reasoning task in service-oriented architectures, concerned with detecting Web services that are usable for solving a given request. This paper presents two ...
Michael Stollberg, Uwe Keller, Holger Lausen, Stij...
Abstract. This paper contributes to a line of research that aims to apply agent-oriented techniques in the field of service-oriented computing. In particular, we propose to use go...
Existing action calculi provide rich, declarative formalisms for reasoning about actions. BDI-based programming languages like AgentSpeak, on the other hand, are procedural and ge...