Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) presents several challenges and has been subject to extensive research from many domains, such as image processing or database systems. Databa...
Ricardo da Silva Torres, Celmar G. Silva, Claudia ...
A skyline query returns a set of objects that are not dominated by other objects. An object is said to dominate another if it is closer to the query than the latter on all factors...
Deepak P, Prasad M. Deshpande, Debapriyo Majumdar,...
Data is routinely created, disseminated, and processed in distributed systems that span multiple administrative domains. To maintain accountability while the data is transformed b...
Abstract Service-oriented architectures and applications have gained wide acceptance in the Grid computing community. A number of tools and middleware systems have been developed t...
Shannon Hastings, Scott Oster, Stephen Langella, D...
This paper studies a logical framework for automated negotiation between two agents. We suppose an agent who has a knowledge base represented by a logic program. Then, we introduc...