Abstract. With the rise of global networks like the Internet the importance of workflow systems is growing. However, security questions in such environments often only address secu...
Abstract. Knowledge discovery is a time-consuming and space intensive endeavor. By distributing such an endeavor, we can diminish both time and space. System INDEDpronounced indee...
Jennifer Seitzer, James P. Buckley, Yi Pan, Lee A....
Abstract. We consider the problem of specifying and computing consistent answers to queries against databases that do not satisfy given integrity constraints. This is done by simul...
Marcelo Arenas, Leopoldo E. Bertossi, Michael Kife...
Constructive negation has been proved to be a valid alternative to negation as failure, especially when negation is required to have, in a sense, an `active' role. In this pa...
Abstract. This article considers the link between theory and practice in agentoriented programming. We begin by rigorously defining a new formal specification language for autono...