The use of ontologies lies at the very heart of the newly emerging era of Semantic Web. They provide a shared conceptualization of some domain that may be communicated between peop...
Mehul Bhatt, Carlo Wouters, Andrew Flahive, J. Wen...
Abstract Loosely coupled services are gaining importance in many business domains. However, compared to OO-RPC middleware approaches, emerging technologies proposed to implement lo...
The main issue in e-learning is student modelling, i.e. the analysis of a student’s behaviour and prediction of his/her future behaviour and learning performance. Indeed, it is d...
Oriana Licchelli, Teresa Maria Altomare Basile, Ni...
Interactive multi-agent system improves reusability of agents by separating application design from agent design. However, it remains difficult for application designers (usually n...
1 Today many safety-critical applications are based on distributed systems where several computing nodes exchange information via suitable network interconnections. An example of t...