Skyline queries help users make intelligent decisions over complex data, where different and often conflicting criteria are considered. A challenging problem is to support skylin...
The aim of this paper is to demonstrate Hermes, a robust framework capable of aiding a spatio-temporal database developer in modeling, constructing and querying a database with dyn...
This paper describes an architecture for building distributed information systems from existing information resources, based on software agent and distributed object technologies....
Martin K. Purvis, Stephen Cranefield, Geoff Bush, ...
In this paper, we describe our work-in-progress with collaborative understanding of distributed ontologies in a multiagent framework. As reported earlier, the objective of this fr...
In Grid systems, nontrivial qualities of service have to be provided to users by the resource providers. However, resource management in a decentralized infrastructure is a complex...