This paper studies commitments in multiagent systems. A dialectical commitment corresponds to an agent taking a position about a putative fact, including for the sake of argument....
The dramatic increase in the number of mobile subscribers has put a significant resource and service provisioning strain on current cellular networks in particular in terms of mu...
Abstract. To guarantee the security of computer systems, it is necessary to define security permissions to restrict the access to the systems' resources. These permissions enf...
We propose ontological blending as a new method for `creatively' combining ontologies. In contrast to other combination techniques that aim at integrating or assimilating cate...
Joana Hois, Oliver Kutz, Till Mossakowski, John A....
Throughput servers using simultaneous multithreaded (SMT) processors are becoming an important paradigm with products such as Sun's Niagara and IBM Power5. Unfortunately, thr...