Layered architectures are a proven principle for the design of software systems and components. The paper introduces a layered reference architecture for software agents which assi...
This paper concentrates on one particular aspect of providing communication security: rewalls between domains of trust. We argue that signaling support for providing scalable secu...
Abstract. Both Geographic Information Systems and Information Retrieval have been very active research fields in the last decades. Lately, a new research field called Geographic In...
The central idea in reference modeling is the reutilization of the business knowledge contained in a reference model. The user's task in reference model-based construction is ...