Abstract. Negotiation over resources and multi-agent planning are important issues in multi-agent systems research. It has been demonstrated [19] how symbolic negotiation and distr...
We investigate two forms of dependence between variables and/or formulas within a propositional knowledge base: controllability (a set of variables X controls a formula , if there...
At present, the search for specific information on the World Wide Web is faced with several problems, which arise on the one hand from the vast number of information sources avail...
Thomas Eiter, Michael Fink, Giuliana Sabbatini, Ha...
Past software engineering literature has firmly established that software architectures and the associated code decay over time. Architectural decay is, potentially, a major issu...
Abstract. We present a model for complex documents possibly consisting of a hierarchically structured set of images or texts. Documents are represented both at the form level (as s...
Carlo Meghini, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Umberto Stracc...