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...
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...
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...
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...
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...