The objective of this paper is to investigate the problems related to the extensional integration of information sources. In particular, we propose an approach for managing incons...
Online trading invariably involves dealings between strangers, so it is important for one party to be able to judge objectively the trustworthiness of the other. In such a setting,...
The paper describes some innovations related to the ongoing work on the GSA prototype, an integrated information retrieval agent. In order to improve the original system effective...
Giovambattista Ianni, Francesco Ricca, Francesco C...
Service-centric systems are driven more and more towards self-adaptation in order to satisfy QoS in highly dynamic environments. However, the young age and immaturity of this doma...
We constructively prove that the partially ordered set of finite permutations ordered by deletion of entries contains an infinite antichain. In other words, there exists an infini...