In automated negotiation systems consisting of self-interested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding, i.e., impossible to breach. Such contracts do not allow the agent...
The overwhelming amount of information sources now available through the internet has increased the need to combine or integrate the data retrieved from these sources in an intell...
One of the major challenges facing current media management systems and related applications is the so-called ‘‘semantic gap’’ between the rich meaning that a user desires...
Baoxin Li, James H. Errico, Hao Pan, M. Ibrahim Se...
Electronic relationships in the context of electronic commerce and especially in the context of electronic learning and teaching are on the rise. However, besides the well known te...
Providing assurances of performance is an important aspect of successful development and commercialization of expert systems. However, this can only be done if the quality of the ...
Jan-Eike Michels, Thomas Abel, Rainer Knauf, Aveli...