Abstract— Business processes involve interactions among autonomous partners. We propose that these interactions be specified modularly as protocols. Protocols can be published, ...
Abstract Information agents are cooperative agents whose main goal is to collaborate and assist task agents like mobile agents in obtaining information from heterogeneous data sour...
Lito Perez Cruz, Arkady B. Zaslavsky, David Squire
Flexibility and adaptability are essential properties of intelligent manufacturing systems. However, it is a major challenge to realize these properties and the benefits of a flexi...
Lars Kock Jensen, Yves Demazeau, Bent Bruun Kriste...
Active applications can add value to communication. Yet it involves sophisticated domain knowledge and complex development process. In this paper we discuss a framework for the co...
Abstract. A global Data warehouse (DW) integrates data from multiple distributed heterogeneous databases and other information sources. DW can be abstractly seen as a set of materi...