WS-contract establishment with QOS:

International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 373-407

  Fantinato, Marcelo ^a   De Toledo, Maria Beatriz Felgar ^a   De Souza Gimenes, Itana Maria ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF MARINGÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Electronic contracts; Feature modeling; Information reuse; QoS attributes; Web services

Indexed keywords

EID: 50949123633     PISSN: 02188430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218843008001889     Document Type: Conference Paper

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