A pervasive system features a plethora of devices, services and applications organized as a large distributed system. One approach to managing such systems is by policies where ad...
Abstract. Database applications are frequently faced with the necessity of representing time varying information and, particularly in the management of information systems, a few k...
A new approach to the recognition of temporal behaviors and activities is presented. The fundamental idea, inspired by work in speech recognition, is to divide the inference probl...
While WS-BPEL is emerging as the prominent language for modeling executable business processes, it provides limited support for designing flexible processes. An important need of ...
ATL is a temporal logic geared towards the specification and verification of properties in multi-agents systems. It allows to reason on the existence of strategies for coalitions...