— The usual scenario of service oriented systems is characterized by several services offering the same functionalities, by new services that are continuosly deployed and by othe...
Intuitive and meaningful interpretation of geographical phenomena requires their representation at multiple levels of detail. This is due to the scale dependent nature of their pr...
Commitment management is a key issue in service-provisioning in the context of virtual organisations (VOs). A service-provider — which may be a single agent acting within an orga...
In Artificial Intelligence there is a need for reasoning about continuous processes, where assertions refer to time intervals rather than time points. Taking our lead from van Ben...
In recent years, geometry processing algorithms that directly operate on polygonal meshes have become an indispensable tool in computer graphics, CAD/CAM applications, numerical s...