In the development of disciplines addressing dynamics, such as Mathematics and Physics, a major role was played by the assumption that processes can be modelled by introducing cer...
Defeat mechanisms are strategies for achieving victory over an opponent. Although defeat mechanisms often rely on influencing the opponent psychologically and emotionally, most si...
We study the problem of generating e cient, equivalent rewritings using views to compute the answer to a query. We take the closed-world assumption, in which views are materialize...
The effective management of digital rights is a crucial challenge in many industries making the transition from physical to digital products. We present an economic model that cha...
Initial results of an experiment devised to combine Bond-Graph modeling and simulation with genetic programming for automated design of a simple mechatronic system are reported in...