We formally characterize alternating fixed points of boolean equation systems as models of (propositional) normal logic programs. To this end, we introduce the notion of a preferr...
K. Narayan Kumar, C. R. Ramakrishnan, Scott A. Smo...
We examine how the biomedical informatics (BMI) community, especially consortia that share data and applications, can take advantage of a new resource called cloud computing. Clou...
Arnon Rosenthal, Peter Mork, Maya Hao Li, Jean Sta...
Aspect Oriented Programming, a relatively new programming paradigm, earned the scientific community’s attention. The paradigm is already evaluated for traditional OOP and compo...
This paper proposes an alternative paradigm for building affective competencies in embodied conversational agents (ECAs). The key feature of this approach -- and the reason for ref...
with this, the thread abstraction was introduced. While threads are handling events, or awaiting specific events, unrelated events can be handled by other threads. Unfortunately, ...