In this paper, we present an approach to global transactionmanagementinworkflowenvironments.Thetransaction mechanism is based on the well-known notion of compensation, but extended...
Paul W. P. J. Grefen, Jochem Vonk, Peter M. G. Ape...
Users commonly rely just on scarce textual annotation when their searches for images are semantic or conceptual based. Rich visual information is often thrown away in basic annota...
Shrack is a peer-to-peer framework for document sharing and tracking. Shrack peers provide support to researchers in forming direct collaboration in autonomous sharing and keeping...
Hathai Tanta-ngai, Vlado Keselj, Evangelos E. Mili...
While there are many useful models of agents and multi-agent systems, they are typically defined in an informal way and applied in an ad-hoc fashion. Consequently, multi-agent sys...
Vincent Hilaire, Olivier Simonin, Abder Koukam, Ja...
Object-oriented languages come with pre-defined composition mechanisms, such as inheritance, object composition, or delegation, each characterized by a certain set of composition...