Algorithms by which peers join and leave structured overlay networks can be classified as passive or active. Passive topology maintenance relies on periodic background repair of n...
The paper reports on the formal framework to design strategies for multi-issue non-symmetric meaning negotiations among software agents in a distributed information retrieval syste...
Web services are essentially black box components from a composer's or a mediator's perspective. The behavioural description of any service can be asserted by the compos...
Motivation: A few years ago, FlyBase undertook to design a new database schema to store Drosophila data. It would fully integrate genomic sequence and annotation data with bibliog...
Background: Amines are biogenic amino acid derivatives, which play pleiotropic and very important yet complex roles in animal physiology. For many other relevant biomolecules, bio...