System theory propagates the use of models which e level of abstraction to cope with complexity, evolving out of variety and connectivity. Different modeling techniques have been ...
Konrad Pfadenhauer, Burkhard Kittl, Schahram Dustd...
Digital libraries (DLs) have become a major focus of information technology resources for organizations from academia, to the US Department of Defense to the archeological efforts...
Eric L. Brown, Luis G. Velazco, G. Kirksey, S. Ram...
Voluminous medical images are generated daily. They are critical assets for medical diagnosis, research, and teaching. To facilitate automatic indexing and retrieval of large medic...
Mediation is the process of decomposing a task into subtasks, finding agents suitable for these subtasks and negotiating with agents to obtain commitments to execute these subtas...
In the design of resource bounded agents, high-level cognitive activities, such as reasoning, raise important problems related both to the adaptive ability and to the computationa...