Opening up large amounts of loosely structured information for easy access and use is a complex problem. This paper describes two systems that address different aspects of the pro...
Data archiving systems rely on replication to preserve information. This paper discusses how a network of autonomousarchiving sites can trade data to achievethe most reliable repl...
The aim of this paper is to determine aspects to be considered in Bunge’s ontological models in order to obtain an Integrated Ontological Model of Information Systems (IOMIS). Th...
Susana I. Herrera, Diana Pallioto, Gregorio N. Tka...
Research can rarely be performed on large-scale, distributed systems at the level of thousands of workstations. In this paper, we describe the motivating constraints, design princ...
In order for agents and humans to leverage the growing wealth of heterogeneous information and services on the web, increasingly, they need to understand the information that is d...