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ICSOC
2007
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Stochastic COWS
Abstract. A stochastic extension of COWS is presented. First the formalism is given an operational semantics leading to finitely branching transition systems. Then its syntax and ...
Davide Prandi, Paola Quaglia
P2P
2006
IEEE
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15 years 9 months ago
Conjunction Dysfunction: The Weakness of Conjunctive Queries in Peer-to-Peer File-sharing Systems
Peers in peer-to-peer file-sharing systems use conjunctive queries as a way of controlling query cost in the absence of information about the behavior of other peers. Conjunctive ...
Wai Gen Yee, Linh Thai Nguyen, Ophir Frieder
DSOM
2005
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
An Approach to Understanding Policy Based on Autonomy and Voluntary Cooperation
Presently, there is no satisfactory model for dealing with political autonomy of agents in policy based management. A theory of atomic policy units called ‘promises’ is therefo...
Mark Burgess
153
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DLOG
2003
15 years 5 months ago
Incremental Query Answering for Implementing Document Retrieval Services
Agent systems that search the Semantic Web are seen as killer applications for description logic (DL) inference engines. The guiding examples for the Semantic Web involve informat...
Volker Haarslev, Ralf Möller
160
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EKAW
2008
Springer
15 years 5 months ago
Learning Disjointness for Debugging Mappings between Lightweight Ontologies
Abstract. Dealing with heterogeneous ontologies by means of semantic mappings has become an important area of research and a number of systems for discovering mappings between onto...
Christian Meilicke, Johanna Völker, Heiner St...