We discuss potential market mechanisms for the GRID. A complete dynamical model of a GRID market is defined with three types of agents. Providers, middlemen and users exchange uni...
Uli Harder, Peter G. Harrison, Maya Paczuski, Teja...
The paper describes ITW – a multi-platform and multilanguage architecture used to discover (multimedia) resources. The ITW system is based on Web services and software agents, e...
We design minimal temporal description logics that are capable of expressing various aspects of temporal conceptual data models and investigate their computational complexity. We ...
Alessandro Artale, Roman Kontchakov, Vladislav Ryz...
Implementing context-dependent behaviour of pervasive computing applications puts a great burden on programmers: Devices need to continuously adapt not only to their own context, b...
Jorge Vallejos, Peter Ebraert, Brecht Desmet, Tom ...
As the Internet population grows, not only computers but household electric appliances, such as VCRs and a refrigerators, will become connected to a network. The demand of connecti...