Besides being adopted as the new interchange format for the Internet, XML is finding increasing acceptance as a native data repository language. In order to make XML repositories ...
Intense research on virtual machines has highlighted the need for flexible software architectures that allow quick evaluation of new design and implementation techniques. The inte...
Abstract. We introduce a framework, based on logic programming, for preferential reasoning with agents on the Semantic Web. Initially, we encode the knowledge of an agent as a logi...
Stijn Heymans, Davy Van Nieuwenborgh, Dirk Vermeir
Many real-world data are maintained in relational format, with different tables storing information about entities and their links or relationships. The structure (schema) of the ...
Oliver Schulte, Hassan Khosravi, Flavia Moser, Mar...
It is recognised that institutions are potentially powerful means for making agent interactions effective and efficient, but institutions will only really be useful when, as in oth...