Traditional databases store sets of relatively static records with no pre-defined notion of time, unless timestamp attributes are explicitly added. While this model adequately rep...
Abstract—Abstract virology has seen the apparition of successive viral models, all based on Turing-equivalent formalisms. Considering recent malware, these are only partially cov...
Computer vision is presented and discussed under two complementary views. The positivist view provides a formal background under which vision is approached as a problem-solving tas...
Acts of interpersonal touch – a touch shared between two people – are used by couples to communicate in a simple and emotionally intimate way. In this paper, we argue that the ...
The support of QoS properties in component-based software requires the run-time selection of appropriate concrete QoS contracts at the ports of the interacting components. Such a s...