Abstract. Using mobile agent systems, cooperative distributed applications that run over the Internet can be constructed flexibly. However, there are some problems: it is difficul...
Abstract. This work discusses the CROQUE approach to the maintenance problem for materialized views. In a CROQUE database, application-speci ed collections (type extents or classes...
Our goal in this paper is to introduce and motivate a methodology, called Tropos,1 for building agent oriented software systems. Tropos is based on two key ideas. First, the notion...
Paolo Bresciani, Anna Perini, Paolo Giorgini, Faus...
While conventional GIS maps have long been a privileged way for the integration and diffusion of geographical information, novel forms of representation and description of urban ...
Jean-Marie Le Yaouanc, Eric Saux, Christophe Clara...
Weblogs and message boards provide online forums for discussion that record the voice of the public. Woven into this mass of discussion is a wide range of opinion and commentary a...
Natalie S. Glance, Matthew Hurst, Kamal Nigam, Mat...