Ontologies are widely used in the biomedical community, which has built standard reference ontologies for various aspects of medicine. These projects have produced broad descriptio...
David Corsar, Laura Moss, Derek H. Sleeman, Malcol...
Finite mixture model is a powerful tool in many statistical learning problems. In this paper, we propose a general, structure-preserving approach to reduce its model complexity, w...
Business rules are a cornerstone of the consistency management of e-commerce data. The concurrency of transactions by multiple customers of e-commerce services (e.g., seat reserva...
Abstract—With the wide support for serialization in objectoriented programming languages, persistent objects have become common place. Retrieving previously “persisted” objec...
Marco Piccioni, Manuel Oriol, Bertrand Meyer, Tese...
This paper presents a methodology for agent-oriented analysis and design. The methodology is general, in that it is applicable to a wide range of multi-agent systems, and comprehe...
Michael Wooldridge, Nicholas R. Jennings, David Ki...