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WOLLIC
2010
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
On the Role of the Complementation Rule for Data Dependencies over Incomplete Relations
Recently, an axiomatization for functional dependencies (FDs) and multivalued dependencies (MVDs) has been established where arbitrary attributes can be specified as NOT NULL. Tha...
Flavio Ferrarotti, Sven Hartmann, Sebastian Link
AOSE
2001
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
UML Class Diagrams Revisited in the Context of Agent-Based Systems
Gaining wide acceptance for the use of agents in industry requires both relating it to the nearest antecedent technology (objectoriented software development) and using artifacts ...
Bernhard Bauer
AOSE
2001
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Bringing Coherence to Agent Conversations
In this paper, we present a social model for software agent conversations for action based on social commitments and their negotiation. We depart from the premises that conversati...
Roberto A. Flores, Robert C. Kremer
CONTEXT
2001
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Practical Context Transformation for Information System Interoperability
This paper discusses the use of contextual reasoning, i.e. context transformation for achieving semantic interoperability in heterogeneous information systems. We introduce termino...
Holger Wache, Heiner Stuckenschmidt
CANDC
2005
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Understanding design as a social creative process
The Human-Computer Interaction community has long been concerned with design. Terms such as ‘creativity’ and ‘innovation’ are frequently used when referring to the design ...
Andy Warr, Eamonn O'Neill