The paper represents current achievements of an ongoing research that aims to develop a formal approach supporting an automatic selection of a Web service sought by a requestor. Th...
Abstract. In distributed computer systems, it is possible that the evaluation of an authorization policy may suffer unexpected failures, perhaps because a sub-policy cannot be eval...
The nets considered here are an extension of Petri nets in two aspects. In the semantical aspect, there is no one firing rule common to all transitions, but every transition is tr...
We here explore a "fully" lexicalized Tree-Adjoining Grammar for discourse that takes the basic elements of a (monologic) discourse to be not simply clauses, but larger ...
The problem of integrating information from con icting sources comes up in many current applications, such as cooperative information systems, heterogeneous databases, and multi-a...