We consider the role played by the concept of action in AI. We first briefly summarize the advantages and limitations of past approaches to taking the concept as primitive, as emb...
We consider continuous quantities that are used to describe the physical world, such as colour, shape, sound, texture, and spatial and temporal arrangements. Natural languages are...
Markovian testing and trace equivalences have been recently proposed as reasonable alternatives to Markovian bisimilarity, as both of them induce at the Markov chain level an aggr...
The consideration of better motion compensation techniques for inter-frame prediction is one of the key reasons why the new H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC) video coding standard can achieve co...
In an open distributed system, computational resources are peer-owned, and distributed over time and space. The fact that these resources can dynamically join or leave the system (...