Abstract. Meta-S is a constraint solver cooperation system which allows the dynamic integration of arbitrary external (stand-alone) solvers and their combination with declarative l...
The design of concurrent programs is error-prone due to the interaction between concurrently executing threads. Traditional automated techniques for finding errors in concurrent ...
Predicate dispatch is an object-oriented (OO) language mechanism for determining the method implementation to be invoked upon a message send. With predicate dispatch, each method ...
Ontologies as means for formally specifying the vocabulary and relationship of concepts are seen playing a key role on the Semantic Web. However, the Web’s distributed nature mak...
Distributed systems are inherently complex, and therefore difficult to design and develop. Experience shows that new technologies—such as components, aspects, and application f...