: Distributed top-k query processing is increasingly becoming an essential functionality in a large number of emerging application classes. This paper addresses the efficient alge...
The “classical” approach to represent Petri nets by graph transformation systems is to translate each transition of a specific Petri net to a graph rule (behavior rule). This ...
In this paper we study a process algebra whose semantics is based on true concurrency. In our model, actions are defined in terms of the resources they need to execute, which allo...
Stepwise refinement is at the core of many approaches to synthesis and optimization of hardware and software systems. For instance, it can be used to build a synthesis approach for...
Abstract. Semantic Web (SW), commonly regarded as the next generation of the Web, is an emerging vision of the new Web from the Knowledge Representation and the Web communities. Th...