Abstract. In this paper we study a special operator for sequential composition, which is de ned relative to a dependency relation over the actions of a given system. The idea is th...
The need to merge different versions of an object toa common state arises in collaborative computing due to several reasons including optimistic concurrency control, asynchronous ...
Many people believe that emotions and subjective feelings are one and the same and that a goal of human-centered computing is emotion recognition. The first belief is outdated; the...
Abstract. This paper proposes a novel architecture for the programming of multi-modal service robots and networked sensors. The presented software framework eases the development o...
Object invariants describe the consistency of object states, and are crucial for reasoning about the correctness of object-oriented programs. However, reasoning about object invari...