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ATAL
2009
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Directed Deadline Obligations in Agent-Based Business Contracts
There are B2B relationships that presume cooperation in contract enactment. This issue should be taken into account when modeling, for computational handling, contractual commitmen...
Henrique Lopes Cardoso, Eugénio C. Oliveira
ATAL
2010
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Cultivating desired behaviour: policy teaching via environment-dynamics tweaks
In this paper we study, for the first time explicitly, the implications of endowing an interested party (i.e. a teacher) with the ability to modify the underlying dynamics of the ...
Zinovi Rabinovich, Lachlan Dufton, Kate Larson, Ni...
ERCIMDL
2010
Springer
150views Education» more  ERCIMDL 2010»
15 years 7 months ago
A Search Log-Based Approach to Evaluation
Abstract. Anyone offering content in a digital library is naturally interested in assessing its performance: how well does my system meet the users' information needs? Standar...
Junte Zhang, Jaap Kamps
ECMDAFA
2008
Springer
118views Hardware» more  ECMDAFA 2008»
15 years 7 months ago
A Metamodeling Approach for Reasoning about Requirements
In requirements engineering, there are several approaches for requirements modeling such as goal-oriented, aspect-driven, and system requirements modeling. In practice, companies o...
Arda Goknil, Ivan Kurtev, Klaas van den Berg
MOBIDE
2010
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Direction-based spatial skylines
Traditional location-based services recommend nearest objects to the user by considering their spatial proximity. However, an object not only has its distance but also has its dir...
Xi Guo, Yoshiharu Ishikawa, Yunjun Gao