There is a manifold of meanings we could associate with the term \evolution" in the database arena. This paper tries to categorize some of these into a unique framework, showi...
Model-based user interface design is centered around a description of application objects and operations at a level of ion higher than that of code. A good model can be used to su...
Interactions between agents in an open system such as the Internet require a significant degree of flexibility. A crucial aspect of the development of such methods is the notion o...
This paper addresses distributed task allocation in complex scenarios modeled using the distributed constraint optimization problem (DCOP) formalism. We propose and evaluate a nov...
Paulo Roberto Ferreira Jr., Felipe S. Boffo, Ana L...
Concurrency is inherent in today’s software. Unexpected interactions between concurrently executing threads often cause subtle bugs in concurrent programs. Such bugs are hard to...