This paper describes the development and structure of a second course in artificial intelligence that was developed to meet the needs of upper-division undergraduate and graduate ...
The ability for software products to adapt to future changes is essential. Whether the change, the delta, is prefixed to subclasses or postfixed to super classes, class hierarchie...
We study fusion and binding mechanisms in name passing process calculi. To this purpose, we introduce the U-Calculus, a process calculus with no I/O polarities and a unique form of...
Michele Boreale, Maria Grazia Buscemi, Ugo Montana...
The increasing popularity of XML Web services motivates us to examine if it is feasible to substitute one vendor service for another when using a Web-based application, assuming th...
This paper introduces a formal theory for describing actions in terminological knowledge bases, closely related to description logics. It deals in particular with the problem of ad...