In the past, it was very common to develop middleware without consideration of security from the very beginning. To integrate security, the middleware that should be protected has...
There are many methodological approaches for Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, each one focusing on some features of multi-agent systems, but leaving others underdefined. For t...
We develop a multi-class object detection framework whose core component is a nearest neighbor search over object part classes. The performance of the overall system is critically...
We give a notation and a logical calculus for the description and deductive manipulation of dynamic networks of communicating components. We represent such nets by hierarchical sys...
Performance of distributed applications largely depends on the mapping of their components on the underlying architecture. On one mponent-based approaches provide an abstraction su...