This paper presents the "situation manager" rule language. The situation manager is a tool that includes both a language and an efficient runtime execution mechanism, aim...
Soft constraints are a generalization of classical constraints, where constraints and/or partial assignments are associated to preference or importance levels, and constraints are...
We show how formal specifications can be integrated into one of the current pragmatic object-oriented software development methods. Jacobson's "Object-Oriented Software ...
XTCcmp, the XQuery Compiler of a native XML database system, extends Starburst's well-known Query Graph Model to serve as an internal representation and basis for query restr...
Situations, the semantic interpretations of context, provide a better basis for selecting adaptive behaviours than context itself. The definition of situations typically rests on t...
Juan Ye, Lorcan Coyle, Simon A. Dobson, Paddy Nixo...