We analyze and extend a recently proposed model of linguistic diffusion in social networks, to analytically derive time to convergence, and to account for the innovation phase of...
Abstract. We study the exchange of information in collective information systems mediated by information agents, focusing specifically on the problem of semantic interoperability. ...
This paper presents a user-centered design methodology for Decision Support Systems (DSSs), which is specifically built to face the socio-technical gap that often impedes DSS accep...
Pietro Baroni, Daniela Fogli, Massimiliano Giacomi...
Abstract. We apply the PEPA nets modelling language to modelling a peer-topeer medical informatics application, the FieldCare PDA-based medical records system developed by SINTEF T...
Stephen Gilmore, Valentin Haenel, Jane Hillston, L...
Coordinating the activities of distributed autonomous entities challenges traditional approaches to distributed coordination and calls for new paradigms and supporting middleware....