Abstract. Current trends in software development show a move towards supporting autonomous components (agents). The accurate timing of interactions between such components is growi...
A special class of oracle circuits with tree-vector form is introduced. It is shown that they can be evaluated in deterministic polynomial-time with a polylog number of adaptive qu...
Automatic processing of metaphor can be clearly divided into two subtasks: metaphor recognition (distinguishing between literal and metaphorical language in a text) and metaphor i...
Software model checkers can be applied directly to single-process programs, which typically are multithreaded. Multi-process applications cannot be model checked directly. While m...
The impact of user interface quality has grown in software systems engineering, and will grow further with upcoming new paradigms such as Ambient Intelligence or Ubiquitous Comput...