In component software, the independence of components is achieved by separating their interfaces from implementations. The interface definition of a component serves as the contr...
Component-based models represent a dominant trend in the construction of wide-area network applications, making possible the integration of diverse functionality contained in modu...
Agent-based computing in Arti cial Intelligence has given rise to a number of diverse and competing proposals for agent programming languages. Agents, in the sense we are using it...
Koen V. Hindriks, Frank S. de Boer, Wiebe van der ...
An important challenge in constraint programming is to rewrite constraint models into executable programs calculating the solutions. This phase of constraint processing may requir...
Ontologies in current computer science parlance are computer based resources that represent agreed domain semantics. Unlike data models, the fundamental asset of ontologies is the...