Despite the relevance of the concept of role for conceptual modeling and agent-orientation, there is still in the literature a lack of consensus on the meaning of this notion and h...
In many application scenarios the database is changing quite rapidly. Because the management of such data is rather expensive and cumbersome, many applications like data warehouse...
While agents have emphasised the notion of active software components, they are not likely to be the only active components in agent-based systems. In this paper, we first discuss ...
The paper addresses the concept of cognition starting from the role of a sensor basis in the design of robots. The field of robotics forces the discussion to be pragmatic which is...
We develop a notion of predicate transformer and, in particular, the weakest precondition, appropriate for quantum computation. We show that there is a Stone-type duality between ...