When constructing programs to process XML documents, we immediately face the question as to how XML documents should be represented internally in the programming language we use. C...
Topic maps provide exciting opportunities not just to make information easier to find, but to increase the usability of software. In order to provide users with the information th...
This paper addresses the problem of cooperative transport of an object by a group of two simple autonomous mobile robots called s-bots. S-bots are able to establish physical connec...
Self-organization is built upon two main building blocks: adaptive and uncoupled interaction mechanisms and context-awareness. Here we show how the middleware TOTA (Tuples On The ...
Software-intensive systems often exhibit dimensions in size and complexity that exceed the scope of comprehension of even talented, experienced system designers and analysts. With ...