The development of software products has become a highly cooperative and distributed activity involving working groups at geographically distinct places. These groups show an incr...
This paper examines how methods inspired by biological processes can be applied to the design of large-scale environment-aware sensor networks. Our ultimate goal are systems conta...
Today XML is an essential technology for knowledge management within enterprises and dissemination of data over the Web. Therefore the efficient evaluation of XML queries has been ...
This paper studies a logical framework for automated negotiation between two agents. We suppose an agent who has a knowledge base represented by a logic program. Then, we introduc...
Abstract--The world globalization process, the increasing demand of communication and information technologies creates an enormous demand for collaborative applications. Aiming to ...