Prior to the access to decentralized resources like web services and shared files in peer-to-peer networks, the user needs to be provided with accurate information about these res...
One vision of the “Semantic Web” of the future is that software agents will interact with each other using formal metadata that reveal their interfaces. We examine one plausibl...
Drew V. McDermott, Mark H. Burstein, Douglas R. Sm...
This paper presents a brief overview of a framework for the interactive steering of distributed applications that addresses three key issues: (1) Definition of Interaction Object...
This paper presents a generic approach to statically analyze Java programs in order to detect potential errors (bugs). We discuss a framework that supports our approach and carrie...
There is currently great interest in building information mediators that can integrate informationfrom multipledata sources such as databases or Web sources. The query response ti...