Multi-channel information systems involve data redundancy, which, in turn, requires the implementation of synchronization mechanisms among overlapping databases. This need for peri...
Cinzia Cappiello, Chiara Francalanci, Barbara Pern...
Social Order becomes a major problem in MAS and in computer mediated human interaction. After explaining the notions of Social Order and Social Control, I claim that there are mult...
This paper discusses the technical and policy issues that West Virginia Network (WVNET) encountered when it expanded its statewide Internet dialup service through an outsourcing p...
All object-oriented languages provide support for subtype polymorphism, which allows the writing of generic code that works for families of related types. There is also a need, ho...
Mark Day, Robert Gruber, Barbara Liskov, Andrew C....
We start with basic terminology and concepts of modeling, and decompose the art of modeling as a process. This overview of the process helps clarify when we should or should not u...