: Spatial data types or algebras for database systems should (i) be fully general (which means, closed under set operations, hence e.g. a region value can be a set of polygons with...
Object-oriented database systems (ooDBMSs) are supposed to offer at least the functionality available in commercial relational DBMSs of today. One important consequence of this is...
Synchronous reactive formalisms associate concurrent behaviors to precise schedules on global clock(s). This allows a non-ambiguous notion of "absent" signal, which can ...
Dumitru Potop-Butucaru, Robert de Simone, Yves Sor...
Noninterference requires that public outputs of a program must be completely independent from secrets. While this ensures that secrets cannot be leaked, it is too restrictive for m...
In this paper, we propose a framework for modelling agent organizations, OMNI, that allows the balance of global organizational requirements with the autonomy of individual agents...