When knowledge in each agent is represented by an ontology of concepts and relations, concept communication can not be fulfilled through exchanging concepts (ontology nodes). Inste...
The need to integrate several versions of a program into a common one arises frequently, but it is a tedious and time consuming task to merge programs by hand. The program-integrat...
Ring signatures, introduced by Rivest, Shamir and Tauman, enable a user to sign a message anonymously on behalf of a “ring”. A ring is a group of users, which includes the sign...
The built-in process registry has proven to be an extremely useful feature of the Erlang language. It makes it easy to provide named services, which can be reached without knowing...
This paper proposes an extension to the XQuery language to solve the problem of positional grouping: that is, problems in which it is necessary to convert a flat sequence into a h...