We present and implement an infrastructure for automating the negotiation of business contracts. Underlying our system is a declarative language for both (1) fully-specified, exe...
Daniel M. Reeves, Michael P. Wellman, Benjamin N. ...
Discrete wavelet transformations (DWT) followed by embedded zerotree encoding is a very efficient technique for image compression [2, 5, 4]. However, the algorithms proposed in l...
Over the past decade the Internet has evolved into the largest public community in the world. It provides a wealth of data content and services in almost every field of science, t...
Abstract. Deforestation is a well-known program transformation technique which eliminates intermediate data structures that are passed between functions. One of its weaknesses is t...
In this paper we give a simple and uniform presentation of the rewriting calculus, also called Rho Calculus. In addition to its simplicity, this formulation explicitly allows us to...