: In modern information systems the dominant retrieval paradigms have shifted from exact matching towards retrieving a list of the most relevant objects. This is because users usua...
Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Uw...
We present a simple model of distributed multi-agent multi-issued contract negotiation for open systems where interactions are competitive and information is private and not shared...
Peyman Faratin, Mark Klein, Hiroki Sayama, Yaneer ...
Extensive research activities are recently directed towards the Semantic Web as a future form of the Web. Consequently, Web search as the key technology of the Web is evolving tow...
Existing geographic routing algorithms for sensor networks are mainly concerned with finding a path toward a destination, without explicitly addressing the impact of obstacles on ...
Luminita Moraru, Pierre Leone, Sotiris E. Nikolets...
Web and peer-to-peer systems have emerged as popular areas in distributed computing, and their integrated usage permits the benefits of both to be exploited. While much work in th...