Most research about multi-agent coordination is concentrated at a high level, e.g., developing coordination interaction protocols to be imposed on agents. There has been less conc...
The Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) is a consortium that serves as a repository of ontologies that are structured like directed acyclic graphs. In this paper we present a language...
As data management applications grow more complex, they may need efficient distributed query processing, but also subscription management, data archival etc. To enact such applicat...
Abstract. While XQuery is becoming a standard, the W3C is currently discussing the features of an update language for XML, and its requirements. Therefore, time is ripe for designi...
The research on exception handling in Multi-Agent Systems has produced some advanced models to deal with `exceptional situations'. The expression `agent exception' is how...