In this paper, we make a first effort to define requirements for knowledge representation (KR) in an ITS. The requirements concern all stages of an ITS’s life cycle (construction...
—Despite the wide adoption by the scientific community, grid technologies have not been given the appropriate attention by enterprises. This is merely due to the lack of enough s...
Building conversation protocols has traditionally been an art more than a science, as their construction is often guided by designers’ intuition rather than by a principled appro...
Electronic commerce applications have special features compared to conventional information systems. First, because electronic commerce usually involves yet nonexisting business a...
: Computational grids that couple geographically distributed resources are becoming the de-facto computing platform for solving large-scale problems in science, engineering, and co...