Coordination and access control are related issues in open distributed agent systems, being both concerned with governing interaction between agents and resources. In particular, w...
Marco Cremonini, Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli
Recent research has demonstrated the effectiveness of complex skeletal primitives such as subdivision curves and surfaces in implicit surface modeling. This paper presents a hiera...
Future database application systems will be designed as Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) like SAP’s NetWeaver instead of monolithic software systems such as SAP’s R/3. Th...
Stefan Seltzsam, Daniel Gmach, Stefan Krompass, Al...
The paper analyzes a diagrammatic reasoning problem that consists in finding a graphical layout which simultaneously satisfies a set of constraints expressed in a formal language a...
We examine the need for plan inference in intelligent help mechanisms. We argue that previous approaches have drawbacks that need to be overcome to make plan inference useful. Fir...