Research on agent communication languages has typically taken the speech acts paradigm as its starting point. Despite their manifest attractions, speech-act models of communicatio...
Design patterns have proven to be very useful for the design of object-oriented systems. The power of design patterns stems from their ability to provide generic solutions to reap...
Abstract. The separation of concerns is a fundamental principle in software engineering. Crosscutting concerns are concerns that do not align with hierarchical and block decomposit...
We have been working on a unit system for end-user spreadsheets that is based on the concrete notion of units of the abstract concept of types. In previous work, we defined such ...
Abstract Research in the field of sign language recognition has made significant advances in recent years. The present achievements provide the basis for future applications with t...