Abstract. Distributed cooperative applications (e.g., e-commerce) are now increasingly being designed as a set of autonomous entities, named agents, which interact and coordinate (...
The business of software development is solving problems. Following Polya, we can increase our ability to solve problems by focusing directly on problems themselves, on their part...
Provenance describes how an object came to be in its present state. Thus, it describes the evolution of the object over time. Prior work on provenance has focussed on databases an...
Abstract— Autonomous mobile agents require object recognition for high level interpretation and localization in complex scenes. In urban environments, recognition of buildings mi...
Abstract. As information systems are increasingly being called upon to play vital roles in organizations, conceptual modelling techniques need to be extended to relate information ...