This article describes an ontological model of norms. The basic assumption is that a substantial part of a legal system is grounded on the concept of agency. Since a legal system a...
Strict consistency of replicated data is infeasible or not required by many distributed applications, so current systems often permit stale replication, in which cached copies of ...
This paperpresentsa novel framework for streamingvideo over a Differentiated Services (DifPjew) network that jointly considers video source coding. packet classification and error...
Fan Zhai, Yiftach Eisenberg, Carlos E. Luna, Thras...
Data-Providing (DP) services allow query-like access to organizations' data via web services. The invocation of a DP service results in the execution of a query over data sour...
Knowledge-based systems (KBS) are not necessarily based on well-defined ontologies. In particular it is possible to build KBS for classification problems, where there is little con...