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ECTEL
2007
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
The Everlasting Dawn of Educational Brokers - A Search for Key Design Principles
In the last couple of years we have evidenced several initiatives promoting the vision of open educational systems. Educational brokers are supposed to take advantage of this ‘in...
Bernd Simon, Petra Oberhumer, Robert Kristöfl
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CONCUR
2008
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
A Notion of Glue Expressiveness for Component-Based Systems
Abstract. Comparison between different formalisms and models is often by flattening structure and reducing them to behaviorally equivalent models e.g., automaton and Turing machine...
Simon Bliudze, Joseph Sifakis
ATAL
2008
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Specifying and enforcing norms in artificial institutions
In this paper we investigate two related aspects of the formalization of open interaction systems: how to specify norms, and how to enforce them by means of sanctions. The problem...
Nicoletta Fornara, Marco Colombetti
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IPPS
2006
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
Concurrent counting is harder than queuing
In both distributed counting and queuing, processors in a distributed system issue operations which are organized into a total order. In counting, each processor receives the rank...
Srikanta Tirthapura, Costas Busch
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WWW
2004
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Personalization in distributed e-learning environments
Personalized support for learners becomes even more important, when e-Learning takes place in open and dynamic learning and information networks. This paper shows how to realize p...
Peter Dolog, Nicola Henze, Wolfgang Nejdl, Michael...