We address the problem of constructing multiagent systems by coordinating heterogeneous, autonomous agents, whose internal designs may not be fully known. A major application area...
Abstract. A stochastic extension of COWS is presented. First the formalism is given an operational semantics leading to finitely branching transition systems. Then its syntax and ...
Abstract. Controlled vocabularies of various kinds (e.g., thesauri, classification schemes) play an integral part in making Cultural Heritage collections accessible. The various in...
Service discovery and matchmaking in a distributed environment has been an active research issue since at least the mid 1990s. Previous work on matchmaking has typically presented...
Simone A. Ludwig, Omer F. Rana, William Naylor, Ju...
Background: The most renowned biological ontology, Gene Ontology (GO) is widely used for annotations of genes and gene products of different organisms. However, there are shortcom...