To adequately deal with the unpredictable and dynamic environments normative frameworks are typically deployed in, mechanisms for modifying the norms at runtime are crucial. We pr...
Nick A. M. Tinnemeier, Mehdi Dastani, John-Jules C...
Abstract. This work is part of the effort to develop a speech recognition system for Brazilian Portuguese. The resources for the training and test stages of this system, such as c...
Patrick Silva, Pedro Batista, Nelson Neto, Aldebar...
In aspect-oriented programming, one can intercept events by writing patterns called pointcuts. The pointcut language of the most popular aspect-oriented programming language, Aspe...
Pavel Avgustinov, Elnar Hajiyev, Neil Ongkingco, O...
Garbage collection relieves the programmer of the burden of managing dynamically allocated memory, by providing an automatic way to reclaim unneeded storage. This eliminates or les...
One way to analyse programs is to to derive expressions for their computational behaviour. A time bound function (or worst-case complexity) gives an upper bound for the computatio...