Auctions are proposed as a distributed negotiation mean, particularly useful in multiagent systems where both cooperative and self-interested agents compete for resources and serv...
Abstract. We consider the problem of specifying and computing consistent answers to queries against databases that do not satisfy given integrity constraints. This is done by simul...
Marcelo Arenas, Leopoldo E. Bertossi, Michael Kife...
: In Web applications it is often required to manipulate information of semistructured nature, which may present variations according to different circumstances. Multidimensional ...
Abstract. This paper studies algorithms for the Disjunctive Temporal Problem (DTP) a quite general temporal reasoning problem introduced in [12]. This problem involves the satisfac...
We have recently shown how use cases can be systematically transformed into UML state charts considering all relevant information from a use case specification, including pre- and ...