The use of software agents for automatic contract negotiation in e-commerce and e-trading ents has been the subject of considerable recent interest. A widely studied abstract mode...
Paul E. Dunne, Michael Wooldridge, Michael Laurenc...
Recent years have witnessed an increasing interest in designing algorithms for querying and analyzing streaming data (i.e., data that is seen only once in a fixed order) with only...
Alin Dobra, Minos N. Garofalakis, Johannes Gehrke,...
Abstract. The paper describes a set of approaches for representing and accessing information within a semantically structured information portal, while offering the possibility to ...
Sudhir Agarwal, Peter Fankhauser, Jorge Gonzalez-O...
Abstract. In this paper, we examine a number of newly applied methods for combining pre-retrieval query performance predictors in order to obtain a better prediction of the query...
: A Peer-to-peer Data Network (PDN) is an open and evolving society of peer nodes that assemble into a network to share their data for mutual benefit. PDNs are enabled by distribu...