In the next generation Internet, the network will evolve from a plain communication medium into one that provides endless services to the users. These services will be composed of...
We consider Internet broadband access as an elastic service whose value varies across segments of the user population. We show that introducing multiple tiers of service can be an ...
We study the development of distributed agent environments as distributed event-based systems specified in the Ambient Event Calculus (AEC). The AEC is a logic-based formalism th...
Internet-based information technologies have considerable potential for improving collaboration in professional communities. In this paper, we explain the concept of user-driven sp...
This paper introduces a knowledge representation formalism used for annotation of the French MEDIA dialogue corpus in terms of high level semantic structures. The semantic annotat...