The Gaia methodology is a development methodology for multi-agent systems that uses the concept of roles to define behaviour. Gaia uses liveness expressions, which are expression...
The ODMG proposal has helped to focus the work on object-oriented databases (OODBs) onto a common object model and query language. Nevertheless there are several shortcomings of t...
In e-Science, scientific workflow systems are used to share data and knowledge in collaborative experiments. In recent work we discussed the concepts of a workflow bus [1], allowin...
Frank Terpstra, Zhiming Zhao, Wico Mulder, Pieter ...
This paper demonstrates how the extended duration calculus [4] can be used to support the approach to documentation of computer systems presented by in [1]. This approach uses the ...
Marcin Engel, Marcin Kubica, Jan Madey, David Lorg...
The idea of Conceptual Neighbourhood Diagram (CND) has proved its relevance in the areas of qualitative reasoning about time and qualitative reasoning about space. In this work, a ...