Abstract--The Internet provides a universal platform for largescale distribution of information and supports inter-organizational services, system integration, and collaboration. U...
James B. D. Joshi, Zhaohui Kevin Li, Husni Fahmi, ...
This paper briefly traces the evolution of information system architectures from mainframe-connected terminals to distributed multi-tier architectures. It presents the challenges ...
Susan Chapin, Donald B. Faatz, Sushil Jajodia, Amg...
City councils have not yet benefited as much from modern information systems as the other administrations. In the Cuparla project, members of the Stuttgart city councils were each...
We present a formal framework of an autonomous agent as a collection of coordinated control loops, with a recurring sense, plan, act cycle. Our framework manages the information f...
Research efforts have been directed toward the improvement of privacy protecting technology by incorporating privacy protection into database systems. Purpose acts as a central co...