Knowledge scouts are software agents that autonomously search for and synthesize user-oriented knowledge (target knowledge) in large local or distributed databases. A knowledge ge...
Abstract-- The use of atomic commit protocols in mobile adhoc networks involves difficulties in setting up reasonable timeouts for aborting a pending distributed transaction. This ...
George Samaras, Martin Hett, Panos K. Chrysanthis,...
This paper introduces a peer-to-peer agent framework for supporting autonomic applications in decentralized distributed environments. The framework provides agents to discover, co...
This chapter investigates subgroup discovery as a task of constraint-based mining of local patterns, aimed at describing groups of individuals with unusual distributional character...
Many object-oriented information systems share an architectural style that emphasizes flexibility and dynamically configurable. Business rules are stored in a database instead of ...