Abstract. Service Level Agreements are a key issue in Service Oriented Computing. SLA contracts specify client requirements and service guarantees, with emphasis on Quality of Serv...
The combination of two security protocols, a simple shared-key communication protocol and the Di e-Hellman key distribution protocol, is modeled formally and proved correct. The m...
1 In this paper, the segmentation problem is formulated as a problem of segmenting a Riemannian manifold. The image domain is endowed with an anisotropic metric and its segmentatio...
Aspect-oriented programming languages select join points using pointcut constructs that depend on the syntactic structure of the base program. As the base program evolves, the poi...
In this paper, we propose a progression semantics for firstorder answer set programs. Based on this new semantics, we are able to define the notion of boundedness for answer set p...