In order to obtain semantic interoperability in open MultiAgent Systems, agents need to agree on the basis of different ontologies. In this paper we formally define mapping as cor...
—In decentralized settings with partial observability, agents can often benefit from communicating, but communication resources may be limited and costly. Current approaches ten...
: Matchmaking between offers and requests is an essential mechanism in electronic market places. Description Logics have been proposed as a appropriate framework for representing o...
The paper presents a new data partitioning algorithm for parallel computing on heterogeneous processors. Like traditional functional partitioning algorithms, the algorithm assumes ...
A time-bound hierarchical key assignment scheme is a method to assign time-dependent encryption keys to a set of classes in a partially ordered hierarchy, in such a way that each ...
Giuseppe Ateniese, Alfredo De Santis, Anna Lisa Fe...