With the proliferation of heterogeneous devices (desktop computers, personal digital assistants, phones), multimedia documents must be played under various constraints (small scre...
This paper presents a Web-based, database-oriented set of applications, namely "Public Information" and "Electronic Voting", to support information services (ex...
One of the major bottlenecks in conceptual engineering design is the pure amount of design information which the design engineer needs to take into consideration. Furthermore, the ...
Managing the configuration of heterogeneous enterprise security mechanisms is a wholly complex task. The effectiveness of a configuration may be constrained by poor understanding a...
Protocols enable unambiguous, smooth interactions among agents. Commitments among agents are a powerful means of developing protocols. Commitments enable flexible execution of pro...