Shopping on the Internet has become a convenient way of purchasing commodities of choice. A key contribution of agent technology will be to develop personal agents that can assist...
Existing replica services on the Grid we know to date assumes point-to-point communication and file transfer protocol. As such, when hundreds to thousands of hosts on the Grid ac...
The development of software products has become a highly cooperative and distributed activity involving working groups at geographically distinct places. These groups show an incr...
Abstract. We show that the Semantic Web needs a formal semantics for the various kinds of links between ontologies and other documents. We provide a model theoretic semantics that ...
In order to return relevant search results, a search engine must keep its local repository synchronized to the Web, but it is usually impossible to attain perfect freshness. Hence...