Abstract. In pay-per-click online advertising systems like Google, Overture, or MSN, advertisers are charged for their ads only when a user clicks on the ad. While these systems ha...
Nicole Immorlica, Kamal Jain, Mohammad Mahdian, Ku...
Abstract. In component-based programming, the programmer assembles applications from prefabricated components. The assembly process has two main steps: adapting a component by twea...
Abstract. Although several approaches to the semantics of agent communication have been proposed, none of them is really suitable for dealing with agent autonomy, which is a decisi...
Matthias Nickles, Michael Rovatsos, Gerhard Wei&sz...
Abstract. The development of real-time distributed applications requires middleware providing both reliability and performance. Middleware must be adaptable to meet application req...
Abstract. Query rewriting method is proposed for the heterogeneous information integration infrastructure formed by the subject mediator environment. Local as View (LAV) approach t...
Leonid A. Kalinichenko, Dmitry O. Martynov, Sergey...