Abstract. The ability of reacting to changes in the external environment is of crucial importance within the context of software agents. Such feature must however be suitably recon...
This paper presents a Japanese information retrieval method using the dependency relationship between words and semantic and statistical information about them. Our method gives a...
We introduce a new system of trust analysis for concurrent and distributed systems using the π-calculus[13, 14, 15] as a modelling tool. A Type system using boolean annotations g...
Component-based software has a self-similar structure on el of abstraction, i.e. its structure is fractal. Traditional software processes, however, have a linear or iterated struct...
A characteristic of aspect-oriented programming, as embodied in AspectJ, is the use of advice to incrementally modify the behavior of a program. An advice declaration specifies a...