Abstract. The Web and the Semantic Web, as we see it, can be understood as a “living organism” combining autonomously evolving data sources, each of them possibly reacting to e...
Abstract. During the last decade research groups as well as a number of commercial software developers have started to deploy embodied conversational characters in the user interfa...
Abstract. We initiate a theoretical study of the census problem. Informally, in a census individual respondents give private information to a trusted party (the census bureau), who...
Shuchi Chawla, Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, Adam...
Abstract. The Internet is facing ever-increasing complexity in the construction, configuration and management of heterogeneous networks. New communication paradigms are underminin...
Xiaoyuan Gu, Xiaoming Fu, Hannes Tschofenig, Lars ...
The term inheritance anomaly was coined in 1993 by Matsuoka and Yonezawa [15] to refer to the problems arising by the coexistence of inheritance and concurrency in concurrent obje...