Interaction protocols enable agents to communicate with each other effectively. Whereas several approaches exist to specify interaction protocols, none of them has design tools t...
ct 9 The benefits of modular representations are well known from many areas of computer science. While in software engi10 neering modularization is mainly a vehicle for supporting...
: Large information bases that are used by several different users and applications accommodate the demands of their users more effectively, if they can be split into possibly over...
It has long been recognised that interactivity improves the effectiveness of Information Retrieval systems. Speech is the most natural and interactive medium of communication and ...
An important issue in data warehouse development is the selection of a set of views to materialize in order to accelerate OLAP queries, given certain space and maintenance time co...