In this paper I discuss some of the criteria that are widely used in the linguistic and philosophical literature to classify an aspect of meaning as either semantic or pragmatic. W...
Various approaches have been recently proposed for storing the evolution of an XML document, thereby preserving useful past information about the document and thus the ability to ...
Although N-version programming has been employed in some mission-critical applications, the reliability and fault correlation issues remain a debatable topic in the research commu...
This position paper takes as outset experience obtained during development of an object-oriented prototype for a global customer service system. The project involved a large shipp...
We review the current state of research in autonomous mobile robots and conclude that there is an inadequate basis for predicting the reliability and behavior of robots operating ...