The Semantic Web promises to open innumerable opportunities for automation and information retrieval by standardizing the protocols for metadata exchange. However, just as the succ...
This work compares and contrasts two component frameworks: (1) the web-centric Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) framework and (2) the FIPA-compliant multi-agent system (MAS). FIPA...
The growing use of ontologies in applications creates the need for an infrastructure that allows developers to more easily combine different software modules like ontology stores,...
Raphael Volz, Daniel Oberle, Steffen Staab, Boris ...
Freight transportation at distribution nodes such as marine ports, airports and rail yards has been putting tremendous environmental pressure in metropolitan areas. A prerequisite...
Qunzhi Zhou, Amol Bakshi, Viktor K. Prasanna, Rama...
Today’s cross-organizations are increasingly coordinating their capabilities in the quest of dynamically adaptable and thus highly competitive realistic services. Unfortunately,...