A common practice in conceptual modeling is to separate the conceptual from the data model. Although very intuitive, this approach is inadequate for many complex domains, in which...
This paper presents a new model of agency, called the KGP (Knowledge, Goals and Plan) model. This draws from the classic BDI model and proposes a hierarchical agent architecture wi...
Antonis C. Kakas, Paolo Mancarella, Fariba Sadri, ...
We propose and study a technique to improve the performance of those local-search SAT solvers that proceed by executing a prespecified number of tries, each starting with an eleme...
In this paper we present two new approaches based on genetic algorithms (GA) to reduce power consumption by communication buses in an embedded system. The first approach makes it ...
Giuseppe Ascia, Vincenzo Catania, Maurizio Palesi,...
The adoption of the Internet technologies favors the diffusion of Web and Grid-based applications. However, the development of new applications exploiting the modern interfaces an...