We describe a game semantics for local names in a functional setting. It is based on a category of dialogue games acted upon by the automorphism group of the natural numbers; this ...
Several types of term rewriting systems can be distinguished by the way their rules overlap. In particular, we define the classes of prefix, suffix, bottom-up and top-down system...
The Semantic Grid aims at enhancing Grid architectures by knowledge engineering techniques. The service notion is central in this approach. Service-level agreements, called contrac...
Abstract. We introduce the notion of coordination mechanisms to improve the performance in systems with independent selfish and noncolluding agents. The quality of a coordination ...
George Christodoulou, Elias Koutsoupias, Akash Nan...
One of the most important operations involving Data Mining patterns is computing their similarity. In this paper we present a general framework for comparing both simple and comple...
Ilaria Bartolini, Paolo Ciaccia, Irene Ntoutsi, Ma...