Ordinary logical implication is not enough for answering queries in a logic database, since especially negative information is only implicitly represented in the database state. M...
Everyone who has seen the movie Wall Street will have seen a commercial security policy in action. The recent work of Clark and Wilson and the WIPCIS initiative (the Workshop on I...
Humans are "smart components" in a system, but cannot be directly programmed to perform; rather, their autonomy must be respected as a design constraint and incentives p...
Peer production has played an important role in the economics of Web 2.0 related services. User participation and contribution become the main driving dynamics of this new economi...
The goal of this paper is to explore the effects of synchronization on distributed decision making processes. In particular, we examine the dynamics of a spatially distributed mul...