This paper studies commitments in multiagent systems. A dialectical commitment corresponds to an agent taking a position about a putative fact, including for the sake of argument....
We present SHIRI-Annot an automatic ontology-driven and unsupervised approach for the semantic annotation of documents which contain well structured parts and not well structured o...
Recently overlay networks have emerged as an efficient and flexible method for content distribution. An overlay network is a network running on top of another network, usually the ...
Abstract. This work proposes a family of language-independent semantic kernel functions defined for individuals in an ontology. This allows exploiting wellfounded kernel methods fo...
In practice, it is quite difficult to write correct multithreaded programs due to the potential for unintended and nondeterministic interference between parallel threads. A funda...