Over the last few years, the importance of mobile computing as been steadily increasing. While it is important to provide support for accessing databases in disconnected computing...
We present OKEANOS, a distributed service-based agent framework implemented in Java, in which agents can act autonomously and make use of stationary services. Each agent's beh...
Ralf-Dieter Schimkat, Wolfgang Blochinger, Carsten...
Physical design for object-oriented databases is still in its infancy. Implementation decisions often intrude into the conceptual design (such as inverse links and object decompos...
Abstract. In this paper, we present the project Urbi et Orbi, a framework to dynamically manage distributed virtual environments (DVEs). This framework relies on a dedicated script...
Here, we define a framework where defeasible argumentation is used for reasoning about beliefs, desires and intentions. A dialectical filtering process is introduced to obtain a...