In a component-based software system the components are specified, designed and implemented with the intention to be reused, and are assembled in various contexts in order to pro...
Antonio Bucchiarone, Andrea Polini, Patrizio Pelli...
Abstract. We propose a model of the shape, motion and appearance of a sequence of images that captures occlusions, scene deformations, arbitrary viewpoint variations and changes in...
Jeremy D. Jackson, Anthony J. Yezzi, Stefano Soatt...
The BDI model provides what it is possibly one of the most promising architectures for the development of intelligent agents, and has become one of the most studied and well known...
Conversation policies codify the allowable exchanges of speech acts among agents as they execute specific types of tasks. Both the set of agents in a community, and the nature of...
Abstract. We present a series of protocols for authenticating an individual’s membership in a group without revealing that individual’s identity and without restricting how the...
Stuart E. Schechter, Todd Parnell, Alexander J. Ha...