Enterprise design knowledge is currently descriptive, ad hoc, or pre-scientific. One reason for this state of affairs in enterprise design is that existing approaches lack an adeq...
Abstract--More and more embedded systems provide a multitude of services, implemented by a large number of networked hardware components. In early design phases, dimensioning such ...
Evaluating a traditional database query against a data tuple returns a true on match and a false on mismatch. Unfortunately, there are many application scenarios where such an eva...
Meaning negotiation (MN) is the general process with which agents reach an agreement about the meaning of a set of terms. We give here a general model of MN for two agents, in whic...
The paper provides a recipe for adequately representing a very inclusive class of finite-valued logics by way of tableaux. The only requisite for applying the method is that the o...