Abstract. Modern incremental and iterative software engineering processes advocate to build software systems by first creating a highly simpliabstract model of the system which is ...
Abstract. This work takes place in the general context of the construction and validation of a domain expertise. It aims at the cooperation of two kinds of knowledge, heterogeneous...
Abstract. In this paper we describe a formalism which uses the stochastic process algebra PEPA as the inscription language for labelled stochastic Petri nets. Viewed in another way...
A computational model for the acquisition of knowledge from encyclopedic texts is described. The model has been implemented in a program, called SNOWY, that reads unedited texts f...
Signcryption is a public key or asymmetric cryptographic method that provides simultaneously both message confidentiality and unforgeability at a lower computational and communica...