Current trends in collaborative business emphasize the importance of business process support within and between organizations. These process participants are increasingly distrib...
: In information systems that support knowledge-discovery applications such as scientific exploration, reliance on highly structured ontologies as data-organization aids can be lim...
This paper addresses the study of fundamental properties of stream-based content distribution services. We assume the presence of an overlay network with limited connectivity degre...
Abstract. In this paper, an integrated approach for the modeling and the validation through simulation of multi-agent systems is proposed. The approach centers on the instantiation...
We give a notation and a logical calculus for the description and deductive manipulation of dynamic networks of communicating components. We represent such nets by hierarchical sys...