This paper addresses the question of factoring a logic into families of (generally simpler) components, estimating the top– down perspective, splitting, versus the bottom–up, s...
Stigmergy (the coordination of agents through signs they make and sense in a shared environment) was originally articulated in the study of social insects. Its basic processes are ...
: A distributed service to model and control contextual information in mobile and ubiquitous computing environments is presented in this paper. We introduce the general user model ...
Stream-based overlay networks (SBONs) are one approach to implementing large-scale stream processing systems. A fundamental consideration in an SBON is that of service placement, ...
Peter R. Pietzuch, Jeffrey Shneidman, Jonathan Led...
Abstract. We discuss language architecture for the Semantic Web, and in particular different proposals for extending this architecture with a rules component. We argue that an arch...
Ian Horrocks, Bijan Parsia, Peter F. Patel-Schneid...