While there has been much work on developing frameworks and models of norms and normative systems, consideration of the impact of norms on the practical reasoning of agents has at...
Abstract. The Service Oriented Architecture paradigm, and its implementation based on Web Services, have been the object of an intense research and standardization activity. One of...
Federico Chesani, Paola Mello, Marco Montali, Paol...
The integration among DW, OLAP and GIS has been given considerable attention in recent years by many researchers and industrial corporations. This may be a result of: 1) DW/OLAP ca...
Robson do Nascimento Fidalgo, Joel da Silva, Val&e...
Software product lines have already proven to be a successful methodology for building and maintaining a collection of similar software products, based on a common architecture. H...
Israel Herraiz, Gregorio Robles, Rafael Capilla, J...
The Cross Entropy algorithm is a new search method for combinatorial problem. However, it needs considerable computational time to achieve good solution quality. To make the Cross...