What sort of democracies should open agent societies be? We present three normative models of democracy from political philosophy and consider their relevance for the engineering o...
Abstract: Retrieval of web-based geographic information (GI) for spatial decisionmaking processes can benefit from emerging semantic technologies. Ontology-supported metadata, col...
In the context of open environments like the Semantic Web, knowledge-based applications with autonomous knowledge sources have recently gained increased interest. For such sources...
Tina Froehner, Matthias Nickles, Gerhard Weiß...
The number of personal multimedia objects, such as digital photographs and videos, are exploding on the web through popular sites such as Flickr, YouTube, and FaceBook hosting bil...
The twin mainstream computing shifts of mobility and programable Web are fundamentally impacting how humans interact, socialize, and access information. Never before has computing...