Practical description logic systems play an ever-growing role for knowledge representation and reasoning research even in distributed environments. In particular, the often-discus...
Abstract. Workflows represent the coordination requirements of various distributed operations in an organisation; workflows neatly capture business processes, and are particularly ...
Joey Sik Chun Lam, Frank Guerin, Wamberto Weber Va...
SHARK is a novel concept and middleware service for search in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Rather than flooding a network like Gnutella or imposing numerical IDs on objects like d...
A multi-signature scheme enables a group of signers to produce a compact, joint signature on a common document, and has many potential uses. However, existing schemes impose key s...
semantic knowledge all concurrent partitionedAbstract updates to an object must be treated as conflicting, andOptimistic replication is an important technique for merged manually b...