In the investigation of the relationship between the formal and the computational view of cryptography, a recent approach, first proposed in [10], uses static equivalence from cryp...
When dealing with narrative texts, a system must possess a strong domain theory, and especially knowledge about situations occurring in the world. Otherwise the system must envisa...
The paper proposes a methodology to assist the designer at the initial stages of the design synthesis process by enabling him/her to employ knowledge and algorithms existing in gr...
Abstract—Atomicity, a general correctness criterion in concurrency programs, is often violated in real-world applications. The violations are difficult for developers to fix, m...
Auctions are an important means for purchasing material in the era of e-commerce. Research on auctions often studies them in isolation. In practice, however, auction agents are pa...