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AGENTS
2000
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Agent communication transfer protocol
Conversations involving three or more agents often occur in multi-agent systems, for example in brokering and auction protocols typically used in e-commerce. For developing agents ...
Alexander Artikis, Jeremy Pitt, Christos Stergiou
CSL
2000
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Subtyping with Power Types
This paper introduces a typed λ-calculus called λPower , a predicative reformulation of part of Cardelli’s power type system. Power types integrate subtyping into the typing t...
David Aspinall
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ECAI
2000
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
Encoding Information Fusion in Possibilistic Logic: A General Framework for Rational Syntactic Merging
The problem of merging multiple sources information is central in many information processing areas such as databases integration problems, multiple criteria decision making, exper...
Salem Benferhat, Didier Dubois, Souhila Kaci, Henr...
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VLDB
1999
ACM
89views Database» more  VLDB 1999»
15 years 7 months ago
Physical Data Independence, Constraints, and Optimization with Universal Plans
We present an optimization method and algorithm designed for three objectives: physical data independence, semantic optimization, and generalized tableau minimization. The method ...
Alin Deutsch, Lucian Popa, Val Tannen
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COSIT
1997
Springer
115views GIS» more  COSIT 1997»
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Qualitative Representation of Change
Current geographic information systems (GISs) have been designed for querying and maintaining static databases representing static phenomena and give little support to those users ...
Kathleen Hornsby, Max J. Egenhofer