Abstract. We present a formal model of negotiation between autonomous agents. The purpose of the negotiation is to reach an agreement about the provision of a service by one agent ...
Carles Sierra, Peyman Faratin, Nicholas R. Jenning...
W e discuss the modification of queries against an integrated view in a federation of object-oriented databases. W epresent a generalisation of existing algorithms for simple glob...
The dynamic nature of Service-Oriented Architectures challenges traditional systems management practices which tend to be static in nature. We propose a goal-oriented, agent-based...
Patrick Martin, Wendy Powley, Imad Abdallah, Jun L...
By providing an integrated and optimized support for user-defined aggregates (UDAs), data stream management systems (DSMS) can achieve superior power and generality while preservi...
Motion estimation in image sequences is an important step in many computer vision and image processing applications. Several methods for solving this problem have been proposed, b...