Fred Brooks’ retelling of the biblical story of the Tower of Babel offers many insights into what makes building software difficult. The difficulty, according to common interp...
ion is a critical concept that underlies many topics in computing science. For example, in software engineering, the distinction between a component’s behavior and its implement...
We propose a general framework for multi-context reasoning which allows us to combine arbitrary monotonic and nonmonotonic logics. Nonmonotonic bridge rules are used to specify th...
Abstract. Most current object-based distributed systems support access control lists for access control. However, it is difficult to determine which principal information to use fo...
AMOS (Active Mediators Object System) is an architecture to model, locate, search, combine, update, and monitor data in information systems with many work stations connected using...