Modeling the specific motivations and influences related to an individual‘s decision to become involved in insurgent warfare presents its own collection of unique challenges. The...
In cooperative multi-agent systems, roles are used as a design concept when creating large systems, they are known to facilitate specialization of agents, and they can help to redu...
A major challenge for ontology integration is to deal with inconsistencies. Existing merging tools are based on classical logic and are forced to avoid inconsistencies (to prevent...
Fahim T. Imam, Wendy MacCaull, Margaret Ann Kenned...
In the public sector (particularly in the UK in light of recent reforms i.e. the Local Government Act 2000, etc.) a greater degree of accountability and public involvement or inte...
Patrick G. Watson, Penny Duquenoy, Margaret Brenna...
Abstract This paper is sort of a confession. Issues of synchrony, asynchrony, and synchronization, arise frequently in designing embedded systems from components, like everyone I k...