Abstract: Group-oriented web information systems (GWISs) are web-based dataintensive systems that are used by a group of people in order to fulfill common tasks. In particular, th...
Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Bernhard Thalheim, Roland Kas...
In 1926, Mally proposed the first formal deontic system. As Mally and others soon realized, this system had some rather strange consequences. We show that the strangeness of Mally...
The security policy of an information system may include a wide range of different requirements. The literature has primarily focused on access and information flow control require...
As the IT industry is becoming more and more interested in service oriented business models and upcoming technologies like Web Services or Grid Computing, the need for automated c...
Cooperation and autonomy are two antagonistic core variables of agent-based systems, and a key challenge in designing such systems is to balance these variables appropriately. Thi...