Musical open works can be often thought like sequences of musical structures, which can be arranged by anyone who had access to them and who wished to realize the work. This paper proposes an innovative agent-based system to model the information and organize it in structured knowledge; to create effective, graph-centric browsing perspectives and views for the user; to use authoring tools for t...

The development of distributed applications has not progressed as rapidly as its enabling technologies. In part, this is due to the difficulty of reasoning about such complex systems. One reason for the added complexity is the need for communication within modern computing systems. In contrast to sequential systems, parallel systems give rise to parallel events (communications), and the resulti...

Representation of influential entities, such as celebrities and multinational corporations on the web can vary across languages, reflecting language-specific entity aspects, as well as divergent views on these entities in different communities. An important source of multilingual background knowledge about influential entities is Wikipedia — an online community-created encyclopaedia — containin...