When dealing with narrative texts, a system must possess a strong domain theory, and especially knowledge about situations occurring in the world. Otherwise the system must envisa...
Active XML is a high-level specification language tailored to dataintensive, distributed, dynamic Web services. Active XML is based on XML documents with embedded function calls. ...
It is possible to define conversation policies, such as communication or dialogue protocols, that are based strictly on what messages and, respectively, what performatives may foll...
We propose a unified framework for deriving and studying soft-in soft-out (SISO) detection in multiple-access channels using the concept of variational inference. The proposed fram...
This paper presents an approach to automated negotiation between agents which attempts to combine the advantages of a co-operative value adding approach, with the reality that neg...