: My aim in this paper is to articulate an account of scientific modeling that reconciles pluralism about modeling with a modest form of scientific realism. The central claim of th...
We show how protocols can be derived from norms using landmarks. The resulting protocols can be used by agents to fulfill the norms governing an e-institution without having to h...
Huib Aldewereld, Frank Dignum, John-Jules Ch. Meye...
ended abstract looks forward at which shared concepts and approaches are shaping future research in the field of location privacy, as well as reflecting on the broader achievement...
The fragmentation of knowledge management (KM) as a field and as an area of research poses serious theoretical challenges for researchers. The viability of KM rests on how the com...
As software systems become more complex the overall system structure { or software architecture { becomes a central design problem. An important step towards an engineering discip...