The acceptability and effectiveness of an expert system is critically dependent on its user interface. Natural language could be a well-suited communicative medium; however, curre...
A multidatabase system (MDBS) is a facility that allows users access to data located in multiple autonomous database management systems (DBMSs). In such a system, globaltransaction...
Yuri Breitbart, Hector Garcia-Molina, Abraham Silb...
Application domain description precedes requirements engineering, and is the basis for the development of a software or information system that satisfies all expectations of its u...
When agents need to interact in order to solve some (possibly common) problem, resolving potential conflicts beforehand is often preferred to coordination during execution. Agents...
Distributed Constraint Optimization (DCOP) is a popular framework for cooperative multi-agent decision making. DCOP is NPhard, so an important line of work focuses on developing f...
Christopher Kiekintveld, Zhengyu Yin, Atul Kumar, ...