When requirements models are developed in an iterative and evolutionary way, requirements validation becomes a major problem. In order to detect and fix problems early, the speci...
A voting protocol for decision-making in virtual organizations is presented. In an agent-based virtual organization the functions of formation, management and dissolution of the o...
Jeremy V. Pitt, Lloyd Kamara, Marek J. Sergot, Ale...
Abstract In this paper we describe a general logic-enabled Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) approach to manage patient record instances. In particular, the conceptual model of the dom...
Bo Hu, Srinandan Dasmahapatra, David Dupplaw, Paul...
T his paper outlines a formal theory for de fining action concepts in taxonomical knowledge representation languages, in a form closely related to description logics. The central p...
The Pintsov-Vanstone signature scheme with partial message recovery (PVSSR) is a variant of the Schnorr and Nyberg-Rueppel signature schemes. It produces very short signatures on ...