Abstract. Explicit behavioural interface description languages (BIDLs, protocols) are now recognized as a mandatory feature of component languages in order to address component reu...
The article is meant to be kind of the author's manifesto for the role of logic and deduction within Intellectics. Based on a brief analysis of this role the paper presents a...
Recently a lot of multimedia applications are emerging on portable appliances. They require both the flexibility of upgradeable devices (traditionally software based) and a powerf...
Michele Borgatti, Andrea Capello, Umberto Rossi, J...
The relationship between two well established formalisms for temporal reasoning is first investigated, namely between Allen's interval algebra (or Allen's temporal logic,...
In this paper we investigate the relationship between two problems, related to distributed systems, that are of particular interest in the context of Service Oriented Computing: at...