This paper focuses on the development of a principled methodology for the dependability analysis of composite Web services. The first step of the methodology involves a UML represe...
We present two simple but effective smoothing techniqes for the standard language model (LM) approach to information retrieval [12]. First, we extend the unigram Dirichlet smoothi...
The automation of agents that bargain within markets is a challenging open problem. In these settings a seller agent can take advantage from the competition among several buyer ag...
Answering performance to business queries, mainly of aggregated nature, known as On-Line Analytical Processing queries, depends heavily on the proper selection of multidimensional ...
Substantial research effort has been invested in recent decades into the computational study and automatic processing of multi-party conversation. While most aspects of conversati...