The goals of aspect oriented software development (AOSD) and frameworks for configurable protocols (CPs) are similar in many respects. AOSD allows the specification of crosscuttin...
The verification of modern computing systems has grown to dominate the cost of system design, often with limited success as designs continue to be released with latent bugs. This t...
Current speech synthesis technology is difficult to understand in everyday noise situations. Although there is a significant body of work on how humans modify their speech in nois...
We present a new polynomial-space algorithm for solving Distributed Constraint Optimization problems (DCOP). The algorithm, called NCBB, is branch and bound search with modificati...
Preferences of a single agent are often partially ordered. For example, it may be hard to compare a novel with a biography. In such a situation, the agent may want the novel and t...
Maria Silvia Pini, Francesca Rossi, Kristen Brent ...