In functional programming, monadic characterizations of computational effects are normally understood denotationally: they describe how an effectful program can be systematically ...
Design patterns are a standard means to create large software systems. However, with standard object-oriented techniques, typical implementations of such patterns are not themselv...
Agents are intended to interact in open systems where the knowledge about others (reputation) is incomplete and uncertain. Also, this knowledge about other agents is subjective si...
Nowadays, people start to accept fuzzy rule–based systems as flexible and convenient tools to solve a myriad of ill–defined but otherwise (for humans) straightforward tasks s...
In high-dimensional query processing, the optimization of the logical page-size of index structures is an important research issue. Even very simple query processing techniques suc...