Current peer-to-peer (p2p) full-text keyword search techniques fall into the following categories: document-based partitioning, keyword-based partitioning, hybrid indexing, and se...
In open environments like the Web, and open Multiagent and Peer2Peer systems, consent among the autonomous, self-interested knowledge sources and users very often cannot be establ...
Abstract. We provide a formal scripting language to capture the semantics of market mechanisms. The language is based on a set of welldefined principles, and is designed to captur...
We propose a context-logic style formalism, Timed Reasoning Logics (TRL), to describe resource-bounded reasoners who take time to derive consequences of their knowledge. The seman...
Data integration is a significant challenge: relevant data objects are split across multiple information sources, and often owned by different organizations. The sources represent...