Referral networks are a kind of P2P system consisting of autonomous agents who seek, provide services, or refer other service providers. Key applications include service discovery...
Obligation Policies specify management actions that must be performed when a particular kind of event occurs and certain conditions are satisfied. Large scale distributed systems...
We present the architecture and design details of a logic database system that extends functionality in a number of ways. The system supports indefinite (non-Horn) facts in extens...
: Communication processes have become increasingly important in modern working life. Organizations invest a surprisingly high amount of financial resources and employee work time i...
XML has become the standard platform for structured data exchange on the Web. Next concern of Semantic Web is the exchange of rules in markup language form. The rules should be re...