A general technique for merging database schemas is developed that has a number of advantages over existing techniques, the most important of which is that schemas are placed in a...
This paper describes the design and implementation of NAOS, an active rule component in the object-oriented database system 02. The contribution of this work is related to two mai...
Abstract. We present a model of object-oriented and component-based refinement. For object-orientation, the model is class-based and refinement is about correct changes in the stru...
Abstract. We present a technique for designing reconfiguration controllers in the Fractal component-based framework. We obtain discrete control loops that automatically enforce saf...
In this article, we expose our research program in bio-affective-social computing aimed at guiding and participating to the development of multimodal socially intelligent agents in...