Truly ubiquitous computing poses new and significant challenges. A huge number of heterogeneous devices will interact to perform complex distributed tasks. One of the key aspects...
Nicola Bicocchi, Marco Mamei, Andrea Prati, Rita C...
- Ontology engineering has been proposed as a formal mechanism for both reducing the complexity of managing the information needed in network management and autonomic systems and f...
We present a quality management method for multimedia applications. The method takes as input an application software composed of actions. The execution times of actions are unkno...
Jacques Combaz, Jean-Claude Fernandez, Joseph Sifa...
Multiagent environments are often not cooperative nor collaborative; in many cases, agents have conflicting interests, leading to adversarial interactions. This paper presents a ...
Inon Zuckerman, Sarit Kraus, Jeffrey S. Rosenschei...
We study logical properties that concern the preservation of futuredirected obligations that have not been fulfilled yet. Our starting point is a product of temporal and deontic ...