To a large degree information and services for chemical eScience have become accessible -anytime, anywhere -but not necessarily useful. The Rule Responder eScience middleware is about providing information consumers with rule-based agents to transform existing information into relevant information of practical consequences, hence providing control to the end-users to express in a declarative ru...

The problem of searching in the presence of errors is modeled as a game between a questioner and a responder. The responder chooses an integer x 2 f1; : : : ; ng; and the questioner has to determine x asking comparison queries. The responder may lie at his pleasure, provided that at the end of the game the fraction of lies does not exceed a certain constant r: It is known that the questioner ma...

In the ultimatum game, two players are asked to split a certain sum of money. The proposer has to make an offer. If the responder accepts the offer, the money will be shared accordingly. If the responder rejects the offer, both players receive nothing. The rational solution is for the proposer to offer the smallest possible share, and for the responder to accept it. Human players, in contrast, ...