When information services are organized to provide some composed functionality, their interactions can be formally represented as workflows. Traditionally, workflows are executed...
We present a decision making algorithm for agents that act in partially observable domains which they do not know fully. Making intelligent choices in such domains is very difficu...
Complex applications, in particular Web applications, deal with a myriad of different concerns and some of them affect several others. The result is that these crosscutting concer...
Silvia E. Gordillo, Gustavo Rossi, Ana Moreira, Jo...
The notion of fixed-parameter approximation is introduced to investigate the approximability of optimization problems within the framework of fixed-parameter computation. This work...
Today's networks are becoming increasingly complex and the ability to effectively and efficiently operate and manage them is ever more challenging. Ways to provide end-to-end...