: One of the consequences of evolution can be the inability to access objects created using the older schema definition under the new definition and vice versa. Instance adaptation...
Service-based approaches (such as Web Services and the Open Grid Services Architecture) have gained considerable attention recently for supporting distributed application developme...
M. Nedim Alpdemir, Arijit Mukherjee, Norman W. Pat...
Negotiation is an important mechanism of coordination in multiagent systems. Contrary to early conceptualizations of negotiating agents, we believe that decisions regarding the neg...
Interactions between agents in an open system such as the Internet require a significant degree of flexibility. A crucial aspect of the development of such methods is the notion o...
Information-rich environments are the open environments that characterize most of the modern applications of computing technology. The applications include ubiquitous information a...