In multi-agent system literature, the role concept is getting ngly researched to provide an abstraction to scope beliefs, norms, goals of agents and to shape relationships of the a...
Key establishment plays a central role in authentication and encryption in wireless sensor networks, especially when they are mainly deployed in hostile environments. Because of t...
This paper describes SKIMA, a mediation system that gives transparent access to heterogeneous and distributed sources considering their semantics and the semantics of application ...
This paper proposes to model and represent an object’s digital persona by means of a conceptual model that uses fragments of schemata that are termed data-DNA. The object may be...
Agile practices are arguably improving the productivity of small, co-located software development teams. In this paper, we describe an approach that tries to overcome the constrai...