A fundamental requirement for cooperating agents is to agree on a selection of component values of objects that can be used for reliably communicating references to the objects, to...
Abstract. Multi-attribute negotiation has been extensively studied from a gametheoretic viewpoint. In negotiation settings, utility functions are used to express agent preferences....
Ontology modularization has received growing interest from the research community lately, since it supports tasks such as ontology design/reuse and knowledge selection and integra...
Paul Doran, Valentina A. M. Tamma, Terry R. Payne,...
We define the base polytope B(P, g) of a partially ordered set P and a supermodular function g on the ideals ofP as the convex hull of the incidence vectors of all linear extensio...
Module mechanisms have received considerable theoretical attention, but the associated concepts of separate compilation and linking have not been emphasized. Anomalous module syst...