The problem we address in this paper is the role of context in the interpretation of images when pictures are used as queries. An image usually depicts several objects and is open...
Open access publishing strategies have traditionally been directed towards what has been regarded as a homogenous scientific community of universities, researchers and libraries. ...
Abstract. The problem of finding an agreement on the meaning of heterogeneous schemas is one of the key issues in the development of the Semantic Web. In this paper, we propose a ...
In collaborative e-commerce environments, interoperation is a prerequisite for data warehouses that are physically scattered along the value chain. Adopting system and information...
What sort of democracies should open agent societies be? We present three normative models of democracy from political philosophy and consider their relevance for the engineering o...