This paper presents narrative pictograms, diagrams designed to convey the abstract concepts of a software agreement. Narrative pictograms arose out of a need to increase the chanc...
We present a brokering service for the adaptive management of composite services. The goal of this broker is to dynamically adapt at runtime the composite service configuration, ...
We study the online clustering problem where data items arrive in an online fashion. The algorithm maintains a clustering of data items into similarity classes. Upon arrival of v, ...
—The effectiveness of online feedback mechanisms for rating the performance of providers in electronic markets is vulnerable to the submission of dishonest ratings. In this paper...
Regardless of whether the humans involved are virtual or real, well-developed conversational skills are a necessity. The synthesis of interface agents that are not only understand...
Douglas W. Cunningham, Martin Breidt, Mario Kleine...