Design patterns describe good solutions to common and recurring problems. The applications of design patterns may vary in different layouts, which pose challenges for recovering a...
Agent based online auctions have not yet become popular because they are not trustable. One of the major concerns in agent based online auctions is the shilling behavior problem, w...
— We present a statistical approach for software agents to learn ontology concepts from peer agents by asking them whether they can reach consensus on significant differences bet...
Mismatches in QoS (Quality of Service) often appears as a major but implicit hurdle to smooth component integration. This paper presents a solution to the above problem through pr...
One of the impediments to the wide dissemination of software estimation and measurement practices is the significant overhead imposed by these practices on the project and develop...
This paper presents the Evospaces reverse-engineering tool that represents the architecture and metrics of complex software systems in a 3D virtual world. The main goal of our pro...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems seek to provide sharing of computational resources, which may be duplicated or versioned over several peers. Duplicate resources (i.e. replicas) are the...
Deise de Brum Saccol, Nina Edelweiss, Renata de Ma...
XML diff algorithms proposed in the literature have focused on the structural analysis of the document. When XML is used for data exchange, or when different versions of a documen...
With the growing interest in rule languages in the Semantic Web and the Business Rule community it is time to look again at the issue of debugging rule bases. New challenges have ...