Norm-governed virtual organizations define, govern and facilitate coordinated resource sharing and problem solving in societies of agents. With an explicit account of norms, openn...
Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, Martin J. Kollingbaum,...
Optical fibers are made of glass with different refractive indices in the (inner) core and the (outer) cladding regions. The difference in refractive index arises due to a rapid tr...
Huaxiong Huang, Robert M. Miura, Jonathan J. Wylie
Although IP-multicast has been proposed and investigated for years, there are major problems inherent in the IP-multicasting technique, e.g., difficulty to scale up the system, di...
To answer user queries, a data integration system employs a set of semantic mappings between the mediated schema and the schemas of data sources. In dynamic environments sources o...
Robert McCann, Bedoor K. AlShebli, Quoc Le, Hoa Ng...
Meeting research and especially research on Computer Supported Meetings of natural teams is not available in abundance. What is reported of meetings often uses a rather limited th...