In Java, an interface specifies public abstract methods and associated public constants. Conformance of a class to an interface is by name. We propose to allow structural conforma...
Java's support for parallel and distributed processing makes the language attractive for metacomputing applications, such as parallel applications that run on geographically ...
Rob van Nieuwpoort, Jason Maassen, Henri E. Bal, T...
Knowledge scouts are software agents that autonomously search for and synthesize user-oriented knowledge (target knowledge) in large local or distributed databases. A knowledge ge...
We construct models as an aid to our thought process. A particular class of models, operational models, can be used for simulation and prototyping. The Opj modeling language is su...
In the logical approach to information retrieval (IR), retrieval is considered as uncertain inference. Whereas classical IR models are based on propositional logic, we combine Dat...