Expressive knowledge representations with flexible semantic similarity measures are central for the functioning of semantic information retrieval, information integration, matchmak...
Challenging usage policy issues can arise within virtual organizations (VOs) that integrate participants and resources spanning multiple physical institutions. Participants may wi...
Monitoring the real-time status of voluntary nodes is a basic task of Quality of Services (QoS) management in grid. The heterogeneity of distributed host resources is an obvious ob...
In this paper we propose a new persuasion dialogue game for agent communication. We show how this dialogue game is modeled by a framework based on social commitments and arguments....
Abstract. This short paper introduces the issues and challenges of next generation Java-based smart card platforms. Betting on a continuous evolution toward open computing devices,...