This paper develops a model for exceptions and an approach for incorporating them in commitment protocols among autonomous agents. Modeling and handling exceptions is critical for...
Abstract. Future database application systems will be designed as Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs), in contrast to today’s monolithic architectures. The decomposition in man...
Daniel Gmach, Stefan Krompass, Stefan Seltzsam, Ma...
Search engines process queries conjunctively to restrict the size of the answer set. Further, it is not rare to observe a mismatch between the vocabulary used in the text of Web p...
Motivated by the security of the nonlinear filter generator, the concept of correlation was previously extended to the conditional correlation, that studied the linear correlation...
The central idea behind interface-based design is to describe components by a component interface. In contrast to a component description that describes what a component does, a c...