From a software engineering perspective, agent systems are a specialization of object-oriented (OO) systems, in which individual objects have their own threads of control and thei...
During the life cycle of an XML application, both schemas and queries may change from one version to another. Schema evolutions may affect query results and potentially the validi...
Policy authors typically reconcile several different mental models and goals, such as enabling collaboration, securing information, and conveying trust in colleagues. The data un...
Many emerging semantic web applications include ontologies from one set of authors and instance data from another (often much larger) set of authors. Often ontologies are reused a...
Complex Semantic Web (SW) services may have intricate data state, autonomous process behavior and concurrent interactions. The design of such SW service systems requires precise a...