As agile software development principles and methods are being adopted by large software product organizations it is important to understand the role of software entropy. That is,...
Many authorization system models include some notion of obligation. Little attention has been given to user obligations that depend on and affect authorizations. However, to be u...
Murillo Pontual, Omar Chowdhury, William H. Winsbo...
Lappin and Francez (1994) present a theory of donkey anaphora which, they claim, captures both their existential and their universal readings, while maintaining a uniform represent...
Abstract—Object-oriented (OO) software is usually organized into subsystems using the concepts of package or module. Such modular structure helps applications to evolve when faci...
Abstract— In general, a mobile robot that operates in unknown environments has to maintain a map and has to determine its own location given the map. This introduces significant...