Macroprogramming's primary goal is to increase developers' productivity by providing high-
level specifications of applications' behaviour at the system level. Macroprogramming may …

Abstract Cyber–Physical Systems (CPSs) are complex and heterogeneous systems.
Interacting with the physical world makes CPS unpredictable because of unanticipated …

This paper presents a framework based on natural language processing and first-order logic
aiming at instantiating cognitive chatbots. The proposed framework leverages two types of …

In the last decade, the market of Internet of Things has become quite disruptive, together
with commercial clouds providing connection between every sort of devices and the global …

Multi-paradigm languages are becoming more and more popular, as they allow developers
to choose the most suitable paradigm for each task. Most commonly, we observe the …

The interoperability of devices from distinct brands on the Internet of Things (IoT) domain is
still an open issue. The main reason is that pioneer companies always deliberately …

This paper addresses the issue of nowadays vocal assistants cognitive lacks, which are able
to execute from vocal commands only simple plans without higher capabilities of decision …

Embedded artificial intelligence in IoT devices is presented as an option to reduce
connectivity dependence, allowing decision-making directly at the edge computing layer …

The popularity of multi-paradigm languages is on the rise, enabling developers to select the
most appropriate paradigm for each task. While object-oriented and functional programming …

Abstract The execution of Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) agents in a Multi-Agent System
(MAS) can be practically implemented on top of low-level concurrency mechanisms that …