—Enterprise computing is moving towards more open, collaborative systems. Joining a business network must be made efficient, despite the technical and semantic interoperability ...
Abstract. A strong research emphasis is being given towards regulating interoperable multi-agent environments through norms and institutions. We are concerned with environments in ...
Metadata is the information that describes the most important feature of an object. In recent years, metadata plays a more and more important role in data intensive applications. I...
With the evolution of the Web evolving towards the Semantic Web, where the information should be presented in a meaningful way for both humans and machines, arises the need for sem...
Emerging Web standards promise a network of heterogeneous yet interoperable Web Services. Web Services would greatly simplify the development of many kinds of information agents a...