Classical distributed database systems monolithically offer distribution transparency and higher performance. This is made possible by making data available and closer to the appl...
The evolution of complex software systems is promoted by software engineering principles and techniques like separation of concerns, encapsulation, stepwise refinement, and reusab...
The aggregation of conflicting preferences is a central problem in multiagent systems. The key difficulty is that the agents may report their preferences insincerely. Mechanism ...
Adaptive web sites are sites that automatically improve their internal organization and/or presentation by observing userbrowsing behavior. In this paper we argue that adaptive be...
Contemporary product design and process development is based on an iterative specify-evaluate-revise approach which is often time intensive and therein non-responsive to customer ...
Max Blair, Steven R. LeClair, Jeffrey V. Zweber, A...