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TSD
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Determining User Interface Semantics Using Communicating Agents
The Internet offers remote access to many information systems to users independent of time and location. This paper describes an agent based approach to deal with issues that rise ...
L. Ton, Léon J. M. Rothkrantz
CAISE
2001
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Techniques for Reactive System Design: The Tools in TRADE
Reactive systems are systems whose purpose is to maintain a certain desirable state of affairs in their environment, and include information systems, groupware, workflow systems,...
Roel Wieringa, David N. Jansen
ITCC
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Mask and Multiple Format: Two Notions for a Progressive and Adapted Access to Information
This paper introduces the notions of mask and multiple format for setting up a progressive access to information in an Information System. Masks consist of more or less complete r...
Marlène Villanova-Oliver, Jérô...
COOPIS
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Discovering Emergent Virtual Work Processes in Collaborative Systems
The design of virtual workplaces that can support virtual work processes has traditionally been either ad-hoc, or has been influenced by the top-down approaches, such as ‘virtua...
Simeon J. Simoff, Robert P. Biuk-Aghai
COOPIS
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Runtime Performance Modeling and Measurement of Adaptive Distributed Object Applications
Distributed applications that can adapt at runtime to changing quality of service (QoS) require a model of the expected QoS and of the possible application adaptations. QoS models ...
John A. Zinky, Joseph P. Loyall, Richard Shapiro
COOPIS
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A Decentralized Algorithm for Coordinating Independent Peers: An Initial Examination
Abstract. Peer-to-peer (P2P) applications are composed of a distributed collection of peers that cooperate in order to perform some common task. Though P2P applications have attrac...
Girish Suryanarayana, Richard N. Taylor
COOPIS
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Open Mind Common Sense: Knowledge Acquisition from the General Public
Abstract. Open Mind Common Sense is a knowledge acquisition system designed to acquire commonsense knowledge from the general public over the web. We describe and evaluate our firs...
Push Singh, Thomas Lin, Erik T. Mueller, Grace Lim...
COOPIS
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Well-Founded Optimism: Inheritance in Frame-Based Knowledge Bases
Abstract. F-logic is a popular formalism for knowledge-intensive applications and, especially, for ontology management in Semantic Web. However, the original F-logic’s semantics ...
Guizhen Yang, Michael Kifer
COOPIS
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Finding Trading Partners to Establish Ad-hoc Business Processes
Enabling technology for realizing ad-hoc business processes currently is becoming more and more popular, like for example web services. Ad-hoc business processes are semantically c...
Andreas Wombacher, Bendick Mahleko