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ACOM
2004
Springer
16 years 14 hour ago
Agent Communication and Institutional Reality
Abstract. In this paper we propose to regard an Agent Communication Language (ACL) as a set of conventions to act on a fragment of institutional reality, defined in the context of...
Nicoletta Fornara, Francesco Viganò, Marco ...
ADBIS
2004
Springer
111views Database» more  ADBIS 2004»
16 years 14 hour ago
A High-Level Language for Specifying XML Data Transformations
Abstract. We propose a descriptive high-level language XDTrans devoted to specify transformations over XML data. The language is based on unranked tree automata approach. In contra...
Tadeusz Pankowski
CIVR
2004
Springer
166views Image Analysis» more  CIVR 2004»
16 years 7 hour ago
Object Segmentation and Ontologies for MPEG-2 Video Indexing and Retrieval
Abstract. A novel approach to object-based video indexing and retrieval is presented, employing an object segmentation algorithm for the real-time, unsupervised segmentation of com...
Vasileios Mezaris, Michael G. Strintzis
ERCIMDL
2004
Springer
116views Education» more  ERCIMDL 2004»
16 years 2 hour ago
Towards a Policy Language for Humans and Computers
Abstract. A policy is a statement that an action is permitted or forbidden if certain conditions hold. We introduce a language for reasoning about policies called Rosetta. What mak...
Vicky Weissman, Carl Lagoze
FMCO
2004
Springer
112views Formal Methods» more  FMCO 2004»
15 years 12 months ago
Probabilistic Linda-Based Coordination Languages
Abstract. Coordination languages are intended to simplify the development of complex software systems by separating the coordination aspects of an application from its computation ...
Alessandra Di Pierro, Chris Hankin, Herbert Wiklic...