Snoop is an event specification language developed for expressing primitive and composite events that are part of Event-Condition-Action (or ECA) rules. In Snoop, an event was defined to be an instantaneous, atomic (happens completely or not at all) occurrence of interest and the time of occurrence of the last event in an event expression was used as the time of occurrence for the entire event ...

In this paper we consider a region which is divided into serveral subregions. Each region is served by a station with a finite capacity. This means that the station can only serve customers within the limits of its capacity (maximum number of connections simultaneously). In connection with this the following question arises: What is the first occurrence time for this event? More exactly, what i...

Similar problems have similar solutions' seems a basic tenet of casebased inference. However this is not satisfied for CBR systems where the task is to achieve original solutions ?i.e. solutions that, even for 'old problems', are required to be noticeably different from previously known solutions. This paper analyzes the role of reuse in CBR systems in originality driven tasks (ODT), where a ne...

Knowing that the expectation of the reader would be more than that of the text, I chose a broad title for this editorial. But my objective here is to initiate a reflection of disquiet, rather than to defend a finished thesis on the triad originality authorship plagiarism. This is simply because we have no universal definitions or concepts, unanimously accepted in this time and space, with all t...

In this paper we argue that there is a trade-off between generativity and originality in online communities that support open collaboration. We build on foundational theoretical work in peer production to formulate and test a series of hypotheses suggesting that the generativity of creative works is associated with moderate complexity, prominent authors, and cumulativeness. We also formulate an...