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The fourth paper, by Flores, Polidório and Lotufo, was chosen as one of the best Image Processing papers of the 2004 Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image

The quantitative results we have presented are quite domain specific. They depend on the communication char- acteristics of the environment, the actions needed to achieve the

To achieve flexible execution, we propose in this paper: (i) a mechanism to handle presuppositions , that uses default values which allow execution to proceed in the presence

(2) the definition of precedence order among aspects; (3) the possibility of using wildcards; (4) the possibility of associating aspects with undeclared elements ( anticipated

Definition 1 The organization of a society is a struc- ture O = ( A, F, Ro, E, BV, Ru ) where: A is the set of agents ; F is the set of services (functions) that agents, and sets

After describing the components of such environments, this paper focuses on the Enterprise Ontology and on three tools developed based on this ontology: a ‘yellow pages’ tool

In order to better isolate thread management, which was spread throughout the code using synchronized blocks, we have reduced these blocks and we have used an event-based

DBM-tree is, in average, 50% faster than these traditional balanced MAM, reducing up to 66% the number of disk accesses and up to 72% the number of distance calcula- tions required