In this paper a theory of delegation is presented. There are at least three reasons for developing such a theory. First, one of the most relevant notions of "agent" is b...
In open environments like the Web, and open Multiagent and Peer2Peer systems, consent among the autonomous, self-interested knowledge sources and users very often cannot be establ...
Inspections provide an effective way of acquiring and reusing experience knowledge. Several details, in both the inspection processes and the inspection event itself, can be found...
An approach to exible hyperbase hypertext database support predicated on the notion of extensibility is presented. The extensible hypertext platform Hyperform implements basic hyp...
Development of advanced anomaly detection and failure diagnosis technologies for spacecraft is a quite significant issue in the space industry, because the space environment is ha...