Abstract We introduce some differences in the style defeasible information is represented and inferences are made in nonmonotonic reasoning. These, at first sight harmless, chang...
Marcelino C. Pequeno, Rodrigo de M. S. Veras, Wlad...
In the design of resource bounded agents, high-level cognitive activities, such as reasoning, raise important problems related both to the adaptive ability and to the computationa...
Multiple viewpoints are often used in Requirements Engineering to facilitate traceability to stakeholders, to structure the requirements process, and to provide richer modelling b...
Tim Menzies, Steve M. Easterbrook, Bashar Nuseibeh...
This work faces the problem of web service selection and composition, discussing the advantages that derive from the inclusion, in a web service declarative description, of the hi...
Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Alberto Martell...
Large systems often have a long life-span and comprise many intricately related elements. The verification and maintenance of these systems require a good understanding of their ...