We investigate the phenomenon of adversarial collaboration, through field studies of a legal firm. Adversarial collaboration requires that people with opposing goals come to agree...
Our central claim is that user interactions with everyday productivity applications (e.g., word processors, Web browsers, etc.) provide rich contextual information that can be lev...
There are many technical challenges in designing the architecture of globally-distributed, federated digital libraries. This paper focuses on the problem of global resource discov...
The concept of automating Web services, specifically the brokering activities, is an active research topic. We need a comprehensive and overarching framework that handles the disc...
As heterogeneous distributed systems, multi-agent systems present some challenging con guration management issues. There are the problems of knowing how to allocate agents to comp...
Joseph A. Giampapa, Octavio H. Juarez-Espinosa, Ka...