Goals are used to define the behavior of (pro-active) agents. It is our view that the goals of an agent can be seen as a knowledge base of the situations that it wants to achieve. ...
Hierarchical clustering is used widely to organize data and search for patterns. Previous algorithms assume that the body of data being clustered is fixed while the algorithm runs...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Richard Rohwer, Theodore C. B...
Abstract. Workflow management systems will change the architecture of future information systems dramatically. The explicit representation of business procedures is one of the main...
This paper introduces a formal model for the description of interactive systems based on the interactor model of [15, 17]. Similarly to that model, it is intended to be used constr...
Research on data integration has provided languages and systems able to guarantee an integrated intensional representation of a given set of data sources. A significant limitation...
Sonia Bergamaschi, Francesco Guerra, Mirko Orsini,...