: e-business organizations are heavily dependent on distributed 24X7 robust information computing systems, for their daily operations. To secure distributed online transactions, th...
Abstract. Esfinge is a general domain Portuguese question answering system. It tries to apply simple techniques to large amounts of text. Esfinge participated last year in the mono...
In recent years, publish-subscribe (pub-sub) systems based on XML document filtering have received much attention. In a typical pubsub system, subscribed users specify their inte...
In large organizations the administration of access privileges (such as the assignment of an access right to a user in a particular role) is handled cooperatively through distribu...
There are many methodological approaches for Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, each one focusing on some features of multi-agent systems, but leaving others underdefined. For t...