Agent orientation is currently pursued primarily as a software paradigm. Software with characteristics such as autonomy, sociality, reactivity and proactivity, and communicative an...
Commercial OLAP systems usually treat OLAP dimensions as static entities. In practice, dimension updates are often necessary in order to adapt the multidimensional database to chan...
Abstract. We present a framework to extend the concept of type systems in programming languages to capture the dynamic interaction in component-based design, such as the communicat...
Electronic commerce (e-commerce) covers a wide range of business transactions. Usually, a transactions includes products, i.e. goods or services. Often, e-commerce websites are int...
Abstract. This paper describes a mechanism for “fusing” concurrent invocations of exclusive methods. The target of our work is object-oriented languages with concurrent extensi...