The fulfillment of time requirements is one of the major acceptance criteria of safety-critical and real-time systems. They are dictated by the environment of these systems and a...
Agent-based on-line negotiation technology has the potential to radically change the way e-business is conducted. In this paper, we present a formal model for autonomous agents to...
On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) is a trend in database technology, which was recently introduced and has attracted the interest of a lot of research work. OLAP is based on th...
The ability to analyse and represent formally semantic relations of terms is a core issue in information retrieval (IR), natural language processing (NLP), and in many related are...
Abstract. In this paper the focus is on object-oriented analysis of information systems. We assume that the communication within an application domain can be described by a logbook...