The growth of the Internet has led to new avenues for distance education. A crucial factor for the success of distance education is effective mechanisms for distance evaluation. E...
In many data sharing settings, such as within the biological and biomedical communities, global data consistency is not always attainable: different sites' data may be dirty,...
In this paper, we present the AgreementMaker, an ontology alignment tool that incorporates the Descendants Similarity Inheritance (DSI) method. This method uses the structure of th...
Ubiquitous Computing Environments feature massively distributed systems containing a large number of devices, services and applications that help end-users perform various kinds o...
Chetan Shiva Shankar, Anand Ranganathan, Roy H. Ca...
This paper develops a model for exceptions and an approach for incorporating them in commitment protocols among autonomous agents. Modeling and handling exceptions is critical for...