Abstract. The task of verifying the compatibility between interacting web services has traditionally been limited to checking the compatibility of the interaction protocol in terms...
The model of overloading views is a facility allowing the programmer to separate some kinds of crosscutting concerns that occur during design, implementation and maintenance of dat...
Effect axioms constitute the cornerstone of formal theories of action in AI. They drive standard reasoning tasks, especially prediction. These tasks need not be coupled with actual...
The shift from paper documents to their respective electronic formats is producing important advantages in the functioning of businesses and Public Administrations. However, this s...
"Bag of words" models have enjoyed much attention and achieved good performances in recent studies of object categorization. In most of these works, local patches are mo...