Empirical skills are playing an increasingly important role in the computing profession and our society. But while traditional computer science curricula are effective in teaching...
"Constraint satisfaction is a general problem in which the goal is to find values for a set of variables that will satisfy a given set of constraints. It is the core of many a...
This paper presents an extended architecture of a policy definition framework fine-tuned for service-oriented environments conforming to the SOA distributed processing paradigm. We...
This paper explores the process of validation for the syntax of a graphical notation. We define a unified specification for five of the UML diagrams used by the Discovery Method a...
In this paper we present a theorem for defining fixed-points in categories of sheaves. This result gives a unifying and general account of most techniques used in computer science ...