Patterns, which are based on in-depth practical experience, can be instructing for the design of groupware applications as sociotechnical systems. On the basis of a summary of the...
Thomas Herrmann, Marcel Hoffmann, Isa Jahnke, Andr...
: Service-oriented architectures (SOA) are recent architectures enabling interoperable machine-to-machine process interaction by generating a comprehensive view of independent soft...
The ability to create effective multi-agent organizations is key to the development of larger, more diverse multi-agent systems. In this article we present KB-ORG: a fully automate...
Using quantitative models of simple mechanisms as an example domain, we show how the basic principles of consistency-based diagnosis can be implemented using description logics wi...
This paper traces the history of policy-based management and how it evolved from the first security models dating back to the late 1960’s until today’s more elaborate framewo...