More than two decades ago, DB researchers faced up to the question of how to design a data-independent database management system (DBMS), that is, a DBMS which offers an appropriat...
The design of high performance multimedia systems in a short time force us to use IP's blocks in many designs. However, their correct integration in a design implies more com...
Today’s global markets demand global processes. Increasingly, these processes are not only distributed, but also contain mobile aspects. We discuss two challenges brought about b...
We build on recent work on argumentation frameworks for generating desires and plans. We provide a rich instantiDung's abstract argumentation framework for (i) generating con...
The last few years have seen the advent of a new breed of decision procedures for various fragments of first-order logic based on ional abstraction. A lazy satisfiability checker ...