The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that A-Prolog is a powerful language for the construction of reasoning systems. In fact, A-Prolog allows to specify the initial situation, t...
Marcello Balduccini, Michael Gelfond, Monica Nogue...
This paper describes issues in the design of IT-centric trouble-ticketing applications. Two prototypes are presented. The first introduces a user-centric, webaccessible thick clie...
Global competition has given rise to Logistic and Production Systems (LPSs), that are distributed manufacturing systems integrating international logistics and information technol...
Mariagrazia Dotoli, Maria Pia Fanti, Agostino Marc...
A generic theoretical framework for managing critical events in ubiquitous computing systems is presented. The main idea is to automatically respond to occurrences of critical eve...
Tridib Mukherjee, Krishna M. Venkatasubramanian, S...
Accountability mechanisms, which rely on after-the-fact verification, are an attractive means to enforce authorization policies. In this paper, we describe an operational model of ...
Radha Jagadeesan, Alan Jeffrey, Corin Pitcher, Jam...