Abstract--A widespread design approach in distributed applications based on the service-oriented paradigm, such as web-services, consists of clearly separating the enforcement of a...
The goal of the COKO-KOLA project [10, 91 is to express rules of rule-basedoptimizers in a mannerpermitting verification with a theoremprover. In [IO], we consideredquerytransform...
Both full-text information retrieval and large scale parsing require text preprocessing to identify strong lexical associations in textual databases. In order to associate linguis...
In this paper, we show how to establish correctness and time bounds (e.g., quality of service guarantees) for multi-agent systems composed of communicating rule-based agents. The f...
call it, provides abstraction through the rewriting arrow and explicit rule application. It also embeds the notion of sets of results to deal with non-deterministic computations. F...