Selecting the right parties to interact with is a fundamental problem in open and dynamic environments. The problem is exemplified when the number of interacting parties is high a...
Voting (or rank aggregation) is a general method for aggregating the preferences of multiple agents. One important voting rule is the Slater rule. It selects a ranking of the alte...
Widespread access to the Internet has led to the formation of geographically dispersed scientific communities collaborating through the network. The tools supporting such collabor...
We describe an approach to distributed knowledge acquisition using an ontology. The ontology is used to represent and reason about soldier performance. These methods are embedded ...
—The information that exists on the World Wide Web is enormous enough in order to distract the users when trying to find useful information. In order to overcome the large amount...