This chapter tackles the relation between declarative languages and multi-agent systems by following the dictates of the five Ws (and one H) that characterize investigations. The ...
The specification of schema mappings has proved to be time and resource consuming, and has been recognized as a critical bottleneck to the large scale deployment of data integrati...
Khalid Belhajjame, Norman W. Paton, Suzanne M. Emb...
Design patterns have proven to be a useful means to make the process of designing, developing, and reusing software systems more efficient. In the area of information visualizatio...
Zaixian Xie, Zhenyu Guo, Matthew O. Ward, Elke A. ...
The dataset generated by a large-scale numerical simulation may include thousands of timesteps and hundreds of variables describing different aspects of the modeled physical pheno...
This paper studies commitments in multiagent systems. A dialectical commitment corresponds to an agent taking a position about a putative fact, including for the sake of argument....