The concept of an agent has recently become important in Artificial Intelligence (AI), and its relatively youthful subfield, Distributed AI (DAI). Our aim in this paper is to poin...
There have been significant advances on formal methods to verify complex systems recently. Nevertheless, these methods have not yet been accepted as a realistic alternative to the ...
Examples of figurative language can range from the explicit and the obvious to the implicit and downright enigmatic. Some simpler forms, like simile, often wear their meanings on...
In this paper we investigate the addition of first-class relationships to a prototypical object-oriented programming language (a “middleweight” fragment of Java). We provide ...
Abstract. Non-interference is a desirable property of systems in a multilevel security architecture, stating that confidential information is not disclosed in public output. The c...
Ricardo Medel, Adriana B. Compagnoni, Eduardo Bone...