The expression 'nature of the artificial' can be understood in (at least) two distinct, yet possibly related, senses as denoting (i) the essence (or whatness) of the art...
Background: Pattern matching is the core of bioinformatics; it is used in database searching, restriction enzyme mapping, and finding open reading frames. It is done repeatedly ov...
Recent developments in Web technology such as the inclusion of scripting languages, frames, and the growth of dynamic content, have made the process of retrieving Web content more...
Combinatorial auctions where agents can bid on bundles of items are desirable because they allow the agents to express complementarity and substitutability between the items. Howe...
A program analysis is compositional when the analysis result for a particular program fragment is obtained solely from the results for its immediate subfragments via some composit...