This paper provides an overview of the foundations of the run-time semantics underlying the Unified Modeling Language as defined in revision 2.0 of the official OMG standard. One o...
Design patterns are widely recognized as important software development methods. Their use as software understanding tools, though generally acknowledged has been scarcely explore...
The XML has undoubtedly become a standard for data representation and manipulation. But most of XML documents are still created without the respective description of their structu...
This paper describes Icarus, an agent architecture that embeds a hierarchical reinforcement learning algorithm within a language for specifying agent behavior. An Icarus program e...
In this paper we present the World-Wide Web Wrapper Factory (W4F), a Java toolkit to generate wrappers for Web data sources. Some key features of W4F are an expressive language to...