Developing and consistently evolving quality software designs requires both theoretical knowledge and practical skills. The former can be communicated in a classroom; the latter h...
This paper presents a new paradigm for information theory which is a synthesis of Barwise-Seligman’s qualitative theory and Shannon’s quantitative theory. The new paradigm is ...
Abstract. The problem of finding an agreement on the meaning of heterogeneous schemas is one of the key issues in the development of the Semantic Web. In this paper, we propose a ...
Generating the reachability set is one of the most commonly required step when analyzing the logical or stochastic behavior of a system modeled with Petri nets. Traditional “expl...
In an organizational context the norms that apply to an agent depend on the roles he holds in the organization. The deontic characterization of structural roles is defined when th...