The problem of designing suitable conceptual modeling languages for system engineering is far from being solved. In the past years, some works have proposed the use of foundational...
— This article presents an evolution of classical SPMD programming for clusters and grids. It is named ”Object-Oriented SPMD” as it is based on remote method invocation. More...
Abstract. The agent paradigm can be seen as an extension of the notion of (active) objects by concepts like autonomy, cooperation, and goal-oriented behavior. Mainstream object-ori...
Abstract Spatio-temporal extensions to data models have been an active area of research for a number of years. To date, much of this work has focused on the relational data model, ...
Tony Griffiths, Alvaro A. A. Fernandes, Norman W. ...
The goal of this paper is to bring together the worlds of design and active databases. Design databases have to provide a powerful data model for complex structured design data as ...