In current design practice synthesis tools play a key role, letting designers to concentrate on the specificationof the system being designed by carrying out repetitive tasks such...
Most document or information management systems rely on hierarchies to organise documents (e.g. files, email messages or web bookmarks). However, the rigid structures of hierarchi...
Paul Dourish, W. Keith Edwards, Anthony LaMarca, M...
The liveness characteristics of a system are intimately related to the notion of fairness. However, the task of explicitly modelling fairness constraints is complicated in practice...
Despite recent developments in formal methods, formal methods have yet to enter the mainstream of software industry. In this paper, we first examine the pragmatic obstacles of ma...
We are developing an Intelligent Network News Reader which extracts news articles for users. In contrast to ordinary information retrieval and abstract generation, this method uti...