Abstract. The Unified Modeling Language (UML) favors the construction of models composed of several submodels, modeling the system comunder development at different levels of abs...
Today’s global markets demand global processes. Increasingly, these processes are not only distributed, but also contain mobile aspects. We discuss two challenges brought about b...
We believe that AI programs written for discovery tasks will need to simultaneously employ a variety of reasoning techniques such as induction, abduction, deduction, calculation an...
The term Semantic Web was coined by Tim Berners-Lee to describe his proposal for \a web of meaning," as opposed to the \web of links" that currently exists on the Intern...
Abstract. It is generally agreed that one of the key services of componentbased systems are transactions. However, an agreement on how components should be involved in transactions...