Services are distinguished from products by their interactive nature, long-lasting business relationships among the engaged parties, and a gradual exchange of value over time. Today, An increasing portion of the world economy is represented by services instead of products. Thus, it is crucial to develop new methods for modeling, analyzing, and enacting service engagements that support the above distinguishing aspects of services. However, the current approaches are not suitable for the service-oriented economy because they offer only product-oriented abstractions. This monograph provides a...
Services are distinguished from products by their interactive nature, long-lasting business relationships among the engaged parties, and a gradual exc...
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems, PRIMA 2010, held in Kolkata, India, in November 2010. The 18 full papers presented together with 15 early innovation papers were carefully reviewed and selected from over 63 submissions. They focus on practical aspects of multiagent systems and cover topics such as agent communication, agent cooperation and negotiation, agent reasoning, agent-based simulation, mobile and semantic agents, agent technologies for service computing,...
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Age...