Context-aware systems capture information from the attributes located within their surroundings and deal with different ways of interacting with the user in its environment. This p...
This paper provides an overview of research and development activities in the field of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. It aims to identify key concepts and applications...
Nicholas R. Jennings, Katia P. Sycara, Michael Woo...
Distributed information retrieval is a well-known approach for accessing heterogeneous, highly autonomous sources of unstructured information. Selecting and querying only a number ...
A system that protects the unlinkability of certain data items (e. g. identifiers of communication partners, messages, pseudonyms, transactions, votes) does not leak information t...
Since networks and computing systems are vital components of today's life, it is of utmost importance to endow them with the capability to survive physical and logical faults...