Certain problems in connection with, for example, cooperating agents and distributed systems require reasoning about time which is measured on incomparable or unsynchronized time ...
This paper presents results from a field study on voluntary contributions for an information public good provided via the Internet (an electronic newsletter for authors). Whereas ...
The increased use of electronic service has invented a new term Service-Oriented Architecture. In a typical distributed environment consisting of many independent devices and servi...
This paper is devoted to the presentation of the RT-LOTOS formal description technique, which is a formalism suited for applications where concurrency, complex synchronization pat...
Jean-Pierre Courtiat, C. A. S. Santos, Christophe ...
We claim that divisible residuated lattices (DRLs) can act as a unifying evaluation framework for soft constraint satisfaction problems (soft CSPs). DRLs form the algebraic semanti...