The challenge of peer-to-peer computing goes beyond simple file sharing. In the DBGlobe project, we view the multitude of peers carrying data and services as a superdatabase. Our ...
We describe a multimedia, multilingual and multimodal research system (CIMWOS) supporting content-based indexing, archiving, retrieval and on-demand delivery of audiovisual content...
What sort of democracies should open agent societies be? We present three normative models of democracy from political philosophy and consider their relevance for the engineering o...
Recent works about the activity-oriented approach et educational modeling languages ask questions about the pedagogical scenario concept. The aim of this paper is to define the fo...
We propose to search for common abstractions for different concurrency models to enable high-level language virtual machines to support a wide range of different concurrency model...