The development of the semantic Web will require agents to use common domain ontologies to facilitate communication of conceptual knowledge. However, the proliferation of domain on...
Ontologies are becoming increasingly prevalent and important in a wide range of e-commerce applications. E-commerce applications are using ontologies to support parametric searches...
We consider the view maintenance problem in a web-based environment, in which clients query information from databases, stored in the form of materialized data warehouses, without...
Threads have been present in programming languages for some time now. However, they have a bad image among software developers because they lead to unreliable applications. Most o...
One objective of distributed artificial intelligence research is to build systems that are capable of cooperative problem solving. To this end, a number of implementation-oriented ...