This paper introduces the concept of Adaptive Rooms, which are virtual environments able to dynamically adapt to users' needs, including `physical' and cognitive workflow...
From a multiagent viewpoint, a workflow is a dynamic set of tasks performed by a set of agents to reach a shared goal. We show herein that commitments among agents can be used to ...
Emerging sensor network technologies are expected to substantially augment applications such as environmental monitoring, health-care, and home/commercial automation. However, muc...
Research in temporal database management has suggested that the Entity-Relationship (E-R) model lacks appropriate constructs for representing the dynamic nature of the real world....
The Semantic Web (SW) is viewed as the next generation of the Web that enables intelligent software agents to process and aggregate data autonomously. Ontology languages provide ba...