This paper aims at proposing a general formal framework for dialogue between autonomous agents which are looking for a common agreement about a collective choice. The proposed set...
Software synthesis is defined as the task of translating a specification into a software program, in a general purpose language, in such a way that this software can be compiled...
There are a variety of well-known models for access control developed for purposes like formally modeling the access rights on files, databases, and web resources. However, the ex...
Carl A. Gunter, Michael J. May, Stuart G. Stubbleb...
The integration of information from multiple databases has been an enduring subject of research for over 20 years, and many different solutions have been attempted or proposed. Mis...
We present in this paper a method for document layout analysis based on identifying the function of document elements (what they do). This approach is orthogonal and complementary...