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AGENTS
2001
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Argumentation as distributed constraint satisfaction: applications and results
Conflict resolution is a critical problem in distributed and collaborative multi-agent systems. Negotiation via argumentation (NVA), where agents provide explicit arguments or ju...
Hyuckchul Jung, Milind Tambe, Shriniwas Kulkarni
CONCUR
2001
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Compositional Modeling of Reactive Systems Using Open Nets
In order to model the behaviour of open concurrent systems by means of Petri nets, we introduce open Petri nets, a generalization of the ordinary model where some places, designate...
Paolo Baldan, Andrea Corradini, Hartmut Ehrig, Rei...
GI
2001
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Ontology-based Access to heterogeneous XML Data
: With the increase in popularity of XML on the Internet, the requirements of database management systems have shifted from traditional transaction-based databases towards the kind...
Lule Ahmedi, Pedro José Marrón, Geor...
GI
2001
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Designing QoS and Charging Mechanisms: He who pays the service shapes the design
To accommodate applications with highly variable degrees and categories of Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, a major effort has been invested to overcome the traditional best-...
Anna Bouch, Martina Angela Sasse
IWVF
2001
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Minimum-Length Polygons in Approximation Sausages
The paper introduces a new approximation scheme for planar digital curves. This scheme defines an approximating sausage ‘around’ the given digital curve, and calculates a mini...
Tetsuo Asano, Yasuyuki Kawamura, Reinhard Klette, ...