The upcoming next generation of the internet, often referred to as the Semantic Web, will bring a lot of new technologies, one of which is the Web Ontology Language (OWL). One fea...
Abstract—This paper presents a sensor-based, networked embedded system, referred to as the Particle computer system. It is comprised of tiny wireless sensor nodes, capable of com...
Christian Decker, Albert Krohn, Michael Beigl, Tob...
Numerous agencies and agent systems are being developed or portrayed as vehicles to deliver novel types of e-commerce services to users. However service agents in one agency are p...
The goals of aspect oriented software development (AOSD) and frameworks for configurable protocols (CPs) are similar in many respects. AOSD allows the specification of crosscuttin...
A strength of commitment protocols is that they enable agents to act flexibly, thereby enabling them to accommodate varying local policies and respond to exceptions. A consequent ...