The demand for ontologies is rapidly growing especially due to developments in knowledge management, E-commerce and the Semantic Web. Building an ontology and a background knowled...
Negotiation is an important mechanism of coordination in multiagent systems. Contrary to early conceptualizations of negotiating agents, we believe that decisions regarding the neg...
Transparency can be used to increase the visibility of a user’s workspace in situations where the space is obscured by floating windows and tool palettes. Dynamic transparency t...
The need to merge multiple sources of uncertain information is an important issue in many application areas, especially when there is potential for contradictions between sources. ...
Confidentiality is maybe the most popular security property to be formally or informally verified. Noninterference is a baseline security policy to formalize confidentiality of sec...