Norms represent what ought to be done, and their fulfillment can be seen as benefiting the overall system, society or organisation. However, individual agent goals (desire) may con...
We describe Deskcheck, a parametric static analyzer that is able to establish properties of programs that manipulate dynamically allocated memory, arrays, and integers. Deskcheck c...
This paper is about a novel rule-based approach for reasoning about qualitative spatiotemporal relations among technology-rich autonomous objects, to which we refer to as artifact...
Cloning is extremely likely to occur in web sites, much more so than in other software. While some clones exist for valid reasons, or are too small to eliminate, cloning percentag...
Middleware technologies such as Web Services, CORBA and DCOM have been very successful in solving distributed computing problems for a large family of application domains. As midd...