Abstract--The automation of policy refinement, whilst promising great benefits for policy-based management, has hitherto received relatively little treatment in the literature, wit...
Robert Craven, Jorge Lobo, Emil C. Lupu, Alessandr...
This paper outlines an ontology for characterising architecture frameworks. The ontology is based on the metamodel of MAF, and is currently being tried out on a set of well-known e...
Today’s cross-organizations are increasingly coordinating their capabilities in the quest of dynamically adaptable and thus highly competitive realistic services. Unfortunately,...
Although reasoning about what is the case has been the historic focus of logic, reasoning about what should be done is an equally important capacity for an intelligent agent. Reas...
Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Sylvie Doutre, Paul E. D...
constraint abstractions into integer programming, and to discuss possible combinations of the two approaches. Combinatorial problems are ubiquitous in many real world applications ...