Understanding the structure of knowledge communities, and particularly the organization of "epistemic communities", or groups of agents sharing common knowledge concerns...
Recent twin decisions of the European Patent Office's Technical Board of Appeal have shifted its stance on software patents significantly. In this paper, I explore the backgr...
Tarski-Givant's map calculus is briefly reviewed, and a plan of research is outlined aimed at investigating applications of this ground equational formalism in the theorem-pr...
Andrea Formisano, Eugenio G. Omodeo, Marco Temperi...
ABSTRACT. As informal methods do little to help their use for concurrent and distributed programming, one of the most challenging current tasks is to build tools based on formal me...
Fabien Dagnat, Marc Pantel, Matthias Colin, Patric...
The problem of integrating information from con icting sources comes up in many current applications, such as cooperative information systems, heterogeneous databases, and multi-a...