Research on organization of Multi-Agent Systems (M.A.S.) has shown that by adapting its organization, a M.A.S. is better able to operate in dynamic environments. In this paper we ...
Mattijs Ghijsen, Wouter N. H. Jansweijer, Bob J. W...
Data warehouses and On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) provide an analysis framework supporting the decision making process. In many application domains, complex analysis tasks ...
This paper presents a multicast approach to shared virtual worlds. A shared VRML world is described with integrated spatial audio in a freeware VRML browser. An implementation in ...
John L. Robinson, John A. Stewart, Isabelle Labb&e...
There is a manifold of meanings we could associate with the term \evolution" in the database arena. This paper tries to categorize some of these into a unique framework, showi...
Data outsourcing is an emerging paradigm that allows users and companies to give their (potentially sensitive) data to external servers that then become responsible for their stor...
Pierangela Samarati, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimerc...