Abstract. In this paper we propose to regard an Agent Communication Language (ACL) as a set of conventions to act on a fragment of institutional reality, defined in the context of...
Collaborative Systems support user groups enabling a shared environment and informing of its state and changes through a mechanism called awareness. We believe that these changes a...
Reference models play an important role in the knowledge management of the various complex collaboration domains (such as Supply Chain Networks). However, they often show a lack o...
In the context of open environments like the Semantic Web, knowledge-based applications with autonomous knowledge sources have recently gained increased interest. For such sources...
Tina Froehner, Matthias Nickles, Gerhard Weiß...
In open environments like the Web, and open Multiagent and Peer2Peer systems, consent among the autonomous, self-interested knowledge sources and users very often cannot be establ...