When modeling business processes, we often implicity think of internal business policies and external regulations. Yet to date, little attention is paid to avoid hard-coding polici...
Abstract. Covering quality aspects such as usability through the software development life cycle is challenging. These “-ilities” are generally difficult to grasp and usually ...
Communication between natural or artificial agents relies on the use of a common vocabulary. Since sharing terms does not necessarily imply that the terms have exactly the same m...
This paper introduces a new concept of surveillance, namely, audio-visual data integration for background modelling. Actually, visual data acquired by a fixed camera can be easily ...
The design of safety-critical systems has typically adopted static techniques to simplify error detection and fault tolerance. However, economic pressure to reduce costs is exposi...