: If Topic Maps should be exchanged in distributed environments a common semantic problem occurs: Do two Topics refer to the same Subject? If they describe the same Subject the giv...
The web service model provides fundamental advantages compared to the classical software usage model. But transactions in the web service market have by far not reached the expect...
This paper describes the application of data farming techniques (Brandstein and Horne 1998) to explore various aspects of coevolutionary dynamics (McKelvey 2002) in organization s...
TacAir-Soar is an intelligent, rule-based system that generates believable human-like" behavior for military simulations. The innovation of the application is primarily a mat...
In this paper, we present methods for supporting autonomous updates in replicated databases. Autonomous updates are of particular importance to applications that cannot tolerate t...
Stefano Ceri, Maurice A. W. Houtsma, Arthur M. Kel...