Social insect societies and more specifically ant colonies, are distributed systems that, in spite of the simplicity of their individuals, present a highly structured social organi...
With the rapid growth of the Internet, users' ability to publish content has created active electronic communities that provide a wealth of product information. Consumers nat...
Logic and object-orientation (OO) are competing ways of looking at the world. Both view the world in terms of individuals. But logic focuses on the relationships between individual...
With the growing importance of foreign commerce comes also greater opportunities for fraudulent behaviour. As such, governments must try to detect frauds as soon as they take plac...
Norton Trevisan Roman, Cristiano D. Ferreira, Luis...
Abstract. We introduce a modular framework for formalizing reasoning with incomplete and inconsistent information. This framework is composed of non-deterministic semantic structur...