Sita is a novel language for modeling intelligent behavior in dynamic environments. The central modeling principle is the distinction of recognition and action as the two complementary basic skills essential for situated behavior. The underlying computational model combines an incremental bottom-up logic programming mechanism with a concurrent process calculus. This principle allows for the cle...

Different researchers have focused on complementary aspects of enduser development. For example, some people work on tool-building while others explore different models for participatory programming. This workshop will focus discussion on identifying opportunities for collaboration, particularly between European and American research groups. Submitted position papers have revealed three topics ...

Sita is a novel agent language for modeling intelligent behaviour in dynamic environments. The central modeling principle is the distinction of recognition and action as the two complementary basic skills essential for situated behaviour. The underlying computational model combines an incremental bottom-up logic programming mechanism with a concurrent process calculus. This principle allows the...

We discuss some implications of linear programming for Mather theory [Mt1-2], [M-F] and its finite dimensional approximations. We find that the complementary slackness condition of duality theory formally implies that the Mather set lies in an n–dimensional graph and as well predicts the relevant nonlinear PDE for the “weak KAM” theory of Fathi [F1-3], [E-G]. In memory of Professor Jacques–Loui...

Linear programming with linear complementarity constraints (LPLCC) is an area of active research in Optimization, due to its many applications, algorithms, and theoretical existence results. In this paper, a number of formulations for important nonconvex optimization problems are first reviewed. The most relevant algorithms for computing a complementary feasible solution, a stationary point, an...

In this paper, we claim that there are complementary features which can bring different paradigms in the DM and PL domains to a fruitful cooperation in building Adaptive Systems. The data tailoring capabilities embedded in the PerLa sensor data management language have been extended, thus applying context-awareness to generic system operations; these operations, in turn, can be expressed as Lay...

Agent technology has been revisited as a complementary approach to the object paradigm. Although objects and agents have many similarities, the introduction of agents in the object model poses challenging problems because many system-level and agent-level properties are intrusive and overlapping. In this way, a disciplined approach is required for composition. We present our approach for dealin...

Linear goal programming can be used as a complementary technique when local moment matching method up to the second moment gives some negative mass. This could happen when manipulating a discrete or mixed type severity distribution. In that case we can avoid a simple retreat to the first moment and look for an arithmetic distribution with equal mean and the second moment closest to that of the ...

The U.S. Bureau of the Census has the responsibility to collect data regarding economic sectors and to publish these data without violating confidentiality laws. Collected data contain sensitive data values that if directly published could identify an individual establishment's data. There are a number of methods available that prevent compromising the sensitive cells. These disclosure avoidanc...