Ontologies are set to play a key role in the "Semantic Web", extending syntactic interoperability to semantic interoperability by providing a source of shared and precis...
This paper offers a high-level retrospective overview of the GOPI middleware platform which is the outcome of a three year project aimed at the development of generic, configurabl...
—The FRIENDS system developed at LAAS-CNRS is a metalevel architecture providing libraries of metaobjects for fault tolerance, secure communication, and group-based distributed a...
In this paper, we propose that identity reference used over distributed communication should be defined independent from any attributes and/or the public keys associated with the ...
We develop models of automated E-commerce techniques, which predict the economic outcomes of these decision mechanisms, including the price attained by a good and the resulting inc...