Consensus building among agents is crucial in multi-agent systems because each agent acts independently according to its utility function, and conflict can occur. Therefore, automated negotiation an essential technology for efficiently resolving conflicts forming consensuses while also maintaining agents’ privacy. As the domain be negotiated large, computational cost of reaching a consensus inc...

This work found that there exists a correlation between student motivation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) participation the arts during high school with self-efficacy being mediator. STEM is an important component of success from broad, national, perspective, as well domain-specific point view. The results this may provide aid to teachers, parents, administrators, ev...

Mediator systems federate and integrate data from disparate sources in order to elicit information that the individual sources cannot provide independently. The standard mediator architecture employs wrappers that translate heterogenous source data into a common (often semistructured) data model like XML. A “mediation engineer” provides an integrated view definition (IVD) on the wrapped XML sou...

The interoperation of information from various data sources, internet services and applications is a central topic in scientific research. Due to the fact that today interoperation requires a high degree of user knowledge and domain expertise in order to combine services in life science applications, we need a smarter mediator-based interoperation. In particular, biologists cannot answer questi...

The growth of available personalization services and the heterogeneity in content and representation of therein exploited User Models (UMs), raise a need for a mechanism allowing to aggregate partial UMs generated by other services. Such a mechanism will allow reuse of partial UMs in multiple personalization services that may need it. This paper discusses the details of a decentralized mediator...