In online, dynamic environments, the services requested by consumers may not be readily served by the providers. This requires the service consumers and providers to negotiate the...
The development of the World Wide Web has changed the way we think about information. Information on the web is distributed, updates are made asynchronously and resources come onli...
Abstract. In open scenarios, agents willing to cooperate must impact the communication barrier between them and their unknown partners. If agents are not relying on any agreement a...
Maria Teresa Pazienza, Savino Sguera, Armando Stel...
The Semantic Web envisions a World Wide Web in which data is described with rich semantics and applications can pose complex queries. To this point, researchers have defined new l...
Alon Y. Halevy, Zachary G. Ives, Peter Mork, Igor ...
The ubiquitous computing vision is to make knowledge and services easily available in our everyday environments. A wide range of devices, applications and services can be intercon...