Commitment management is a key issue in service-provisioning in the context of virtual organisations (VOs). A service-provider — which may be a single agent acting within an orga...
We analyse the relationship between object-oriented modelling and session-based, service-oriented modelling, starting from a typical UML Sequence Diagram and providing a program tr...
Abstract Asynchronous invocations are an important functionality in the context of distributed object frameworks, because in many situations clients should not block during remote ...
In this work, we present a conceptual framework for deriving executable business process models from high-level, graphical business process models based on the paradigm of Service-...
Semantic Web Services (SWS), a new generation WWW technology, will facilitate the automation of Web service tasks, including automated Web service discovery, execution, compositio...