The design and development of cooperative Internet applications based on mobile agents require appropriate modelling of both the physical space where agents roam and the conceptual...
Marco Cremonini, Andrea Omicini, Franco Zambonelli
This paper presents a loosely coupled service-composition paradigm. This paradigm employs a distributed data flow that differs markedly from centralized information flow adopted b...
David Liu, Jun Peng, Kincho H. Law, Gio Wiederhold
This paper presents the design and implementation of the Distributed Autonomous Replication Management (DARM) framework built on top of the Spread group communication system. The ...
Query abandonment by search engine users is generally considered to be a negative signal. In this paper, we explore the concept of good abandonment. We define a good abandonment ...
This work proposes a model for video retrieval based upon the inference network model. The document network is constructed using video metadata encoded using MPEG-7 and captures i...