In a reputation-based trust-management system, agents maintain information about the past behaviour of other agents. This information is used to guide future trust-based decisions...
Simple Temporal Networks (STNs) are frequently used in scheduling applications, as they provide a powerful and general tool for managing temporal constraints. One obstacle to thei...
In distributed software engineering, the role of informal communication is frequently overlooked. Participants simply employ their own ad-hoc methods of informal communication. Co...
In this paper, we introduce RICE, a graphical application for interacting with the description logic inference server Racer. Comparing RICE with OilEd, we address the problem of v...
Web services represent the latest effort of the information technology industry to provide a framework for cross enterprise automation. One principal characteristic of this framewo...