Emerging Web services standards enable the development of large-scale applications in open environments. In particular, they enable services to be dynamically bound. However, curr...
A "chance" is an event or a situation significant for making a decision in a complex environment. Since we organized a session of Chance Discovery in KES 2000, the basic...
– A lexical knowledge base is an important component of any intelligent information processing system. The WordNet developed at the Cognitive Systems Laboratories at Princeton ha...
Collaborative Browsing is a new and promising research area whose purpose is to provide new collaboration schemes among users browsing the Web. To become an efficient collaboratio...
Trust is a sine qua non for trade. According to transaction cost economics, a contract always offers some opportunity to defect. In the case of asymmetric product information, wher...
Gert Jan Hofstede, Catholijn M. Jonker, Tim Verwaa...