Abstract. Distributed cooperative applications (e.g., e-commerce) are now increasingly being designed as a set of autonomous entities, named agents, which interact and coordinate (...
—Thanks to advances in mobile technology, modern mobile devices have become essential companions, assisting their users in attaining their daily tasks. It will not be long before...
Product line engineering allows for the rapid development of variants of a domain specific application by using a common set of reusable assets often known as core assets. Variabil...
Many approaches to learning classifiers for structured objects (e.g., shapes) use generative models in a Bayesian framework. However, state-of-the-art classifiers for vectorial d...
—Web Services are the most famous implementation of service oriented architectures that has brought some challenging research issues. One of these is the composition, i.e. the ca...