We address the issue of incorporating domain-specific preferences in planning systems, where a preference may be seen as a "soft" constraint that it is desirable, but no...
Abstract. Discussions about model-driven approaches tend to be hampered by terminological confusion. This is at least partially caused by a lack of formal precision in defining the...
We have designed and deployed a system that uses X.509 public-key certificates (PKC) and attribute certificates (AC) for access control. This includes an authorization service for...
The aim of this study is to present a contribution in the area of human decision modeling. A state of the art from this research area shows the lack of models combining perceptive...
Mainstream object-oriented languages, such as C++ and Java1 , provide only a restricted form of polymorphic methods, namely uni-receiver dispatch. In common programming situations...
Christopher Dutchyn, Paul Lu, Duane Szafron, Steve...