In a unified knowledge representation data, information and knowledge are all represented in a single formalism as "items". Objects are item building operators. Items an...
Technologies for overcoming heterogeneities between autonomous data sources are key in the emerging networked world. In this paper we discuss the initial results of a formal inves...
George H. L. Fletcher, Catharine M. Wyss, Edward L...
The -calculus o ers an attractive basis for concurrent programming. It is small, elegant, and well studied, and supports via simple encodings a wide range of high-level constru...
We introduce the Xdπ calculus, a peer-to-peer model for reasoning about dynamic web data. Web data is not just stored statically. Rather it is referenced indirectly, for example ...
Confinement properties impose a structure on object graphs which can be used to enforce encapsulation properties. From a practical point of view, encapsulation is essential for bu...