An important problem that confronts data grid applications is to efficiently locate the node that stores a particular data replica. This paper proposes a Hierarchical Replica Loca...
We devise a method for automatically detecting treatment relationships using lexico-syntactic patterns and its application to medical-oriented patent retrieval. This process for d...
Service-oriented computing promises to create flexible business processes and applications on demand by dynamically assembling loosely coupled services within and across organizati...
Kawther Saeedi, Liping Zhao, Pedro R. Falcone Samp...
This paper offers a logical formalisation of an argument-based account of reasoning about action, taking seriously the abductive nature of this form of reasoning. The particular qu...
In Department of Defense (DoD) distributed training simulations, events occur that can cause unrealistic behavior. These events can be system events, such as the loss of a hostor ...