The diversity of spatial information systems promotes the need to integrate heterogeneous spatial or geographic information systems (GIS) in a cooperative environment. This paper ...
This paper presents a set of techniques for supporting autonomous collaboration—collaboration where participants work independently for periods, and then join together to integr...
Abstract. XML documents are increasingly being used to mark up various kinds of data from web content to scientific data. Often these documents need to be collaboratively created a...
This panel will survey the virtual world phenomena, introduce the governance issues that arise there and suggests why the digital government community can both contribute to virtu...
In this paper two formal dialectic systems are described, a persuasion protocol (PP0) and a negotiation protocol (NP0), together with a method for shifting from an instance of a pe...