The most important and interesting of the computing challenges we are facing are those that involve the problems and opportunities afforded by massive decentralization and disinte...
SweetDeal is a rule-based approach to representation of business contracts that enables software agents to create, evaluate, negotiate, and execute contracts with substantial auto...
Abstract: Peer data management systems (PDMS) are the natural extension of integrated information systems. Conventionally, a single integrating system manages an integrated schema,...
Ralf Heese, Sven Herschel, Felix Naumann, Armin Ro...
The goal of input-output modeling is to apply a test input to a system, analyze the results, and learn something useful from the causeeffect pair. Any automated modeling tool that...
Abstract. Positioned at the confluence between human/machine and hardware/software integration and backed by a solid proof of concept realized through several scenarios encompassin...