As the amount of available data continues to increase, more and more effective means for discovering important patterns and relationships within that data are required. Although t...
Abstract. Autonomous agents are systems situated in dynamic environments. They pursue goals and satisfy their needs by responding to external events from the environment. In these ...
ÐThis paper discusses the notion of process inconsistency and suggests that inconsistencies in software processes are inevitable and sometimes desirable. We present an approach to...
Ian Sommerville, Gerald Kotonya, Stephen Viller, P...
We introduce the (private) entropy of a directed graph (in a new network coding sense) as well as a number of related concepts. We show that the entropy of a directed graph is ide...
Behavioral software contracts express properties concerning the flow of values across component (modules, classes, etc) interfaces. These properties are often beyond the reach of ...