As there are huge gaps between the local micro interactions among agents and the global macro emergence of self-organizing system, it is a great challenge to design self-organizing mechanism and develop self-organizing multi-agent system to obtain expected emergence. Policy-based selforganization approach is helpful to deal with the issue, in which policy is the abstraction of self-organizing m...

This paper presents the findings from a study of collaborative work among design professionals in virtual modeling for building construction. The research is based on interviews conducted with members from various design professions. We analyzed a building project comprising a network of organizations interrelated by their information systems, to gain a better understanding of collaborative des...

We describe our approach for acquiring, preserving, organizing and disseminating information in a digital library of news publications.

The trend toward high throughput techniques in molecular biology and the explosion of online scientific data threaten to overwhelm the ability of researchers to take full advantage of available information. This problem is particularly severe in the rapidly expanding area of gene expression experiments, for example, those carried out with cDNA microarrays or oligonucleotide chips. We present an...

Dynamic enterprise systems, such as the battleeeld, use self-organizing sensor network infrastructure to gather and disseminate real-time information for controlling the enterprise. Very large number of highly mobile sensor data sources and users may be scattered over a wide area with little or no xed network support. These large surveillance sensor networks must adapt rapidly to dynamic change...