BSCW [8] and Groove [10] have become the two defacto standards for collaboration over the Internet. They offer a wealth of functionalities, support a variety of possible collabora...
A query independent feature, relating perhaps to document content, linkage or usage, can be transformed into a static, per-document relevance weight for use in ranking. The challe...
Nick Craswell, Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza...
Recent years have seen an increasing interest of multiagent system research in employing the theory of argumentation for the development of communication protocols. While signific...
Michael Rovatsos, Iyad Rahwan, Felix A. Fischer, G...
We present a model-checking algorithm which can be used to evaluate access control policies, and a tool which implements it. The evaluation includes not only assessing whether the ...
Recently there has been increasing interest in developing systems that can adapt dynamically to cope with changing environmental conditions and unexpected system errors. Most effo...
David Garlan, Vahe Poladian, Bradley R. Schmerl, J...