With an increasing number of Web services providing similar functionalities, quality of
service (QoS) is becoming an important criterion for selection of the best available service …

Multiple copies of web services reside on associated com puting devices, each having an
associated reputation. A client may desire to access the web service having the highest or …

We present an extensible and customizable framework for the autonomous discovery of
Semantic Web services based on their QoS properties. Using semantic technologies, users …

In this paper, we propose a new quantitative trust model for argumentation-based
negotiating agents. The purpose of such a model is to provide a secure environment for …

Web services selection is based on QoS and trust. As one of the important attributes of QoS,
reputation is commonly used to assess the trustworthiness of the web services and minimize …

Reputation of web service is very important for service discovery and selection. Currently,
the research on reputation of web service is mainly based on the results of reputation of E …

In this paper, we propose a new model for securing agent-based systems in which agents
are equipped with reasoning capabilities allowing them to interact with each other. The …

Purpose–This paper aims to address some security issues in open systems such as service‐
oriented applications and grid computing. It proposes a security framework for these systems …

Market globalization and mass customization requirements are forcing companies towards
automation of their product development processes. Many task-specific software solutions …

The years of? happy scaling? are over and the fundamental challenges that the
semiconductor industry faces, at both technology and device level, will impinge deeply upon …