As Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) gains a wider global acceptance, the need for understanding its life cycle becomes inevitable, not only for developers, but also for users. Service Life Cycle Tools and Technologies: Methods, Trends and Advances compiles the latest research on SOC life cycles, detailing methodologies and applications in this emerging field. The development of service-oriented applications not only depends on constructing service providers, but also composition and delivery. Service requesters, service providers, and developers, alike, will benefit from the views and models...

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,...

Liu takes our concern with the fleeting and virtual nature of our relationships today and gives it a historical angle, drawing examples from past societies and their media forms and revealing new ways of seeing history in the continual overwriting and changing of our programming languages.

Liu takes our concern with the fleeting and virtual nature of our relationships today and gives it a historical angle, drawing examples from past societies and their media forms and revealing new ways of seeing history in the continual overwriting and changing of our programming languages.