Abstract. The use of biometrics, and fingerprint recognition in particular, for cardholder authentication in smartcard systems is growing in popularity, and such systems are the f...
Abstract. An important aspect of agent autonomy is the decision making capability of the agents. We discuss several issues that agents need to deliberate about in order to decide w...
In complex distributed applications, a problem is often decomposed into a set of subproblems that are distributed to multiple agents. We formulate this class of problems with a tw...
As computer systems grow in size and complexity, tool support is needed to facilitate the efficient mapping of large-scale applications onto these systems. To help achieve this ma...
Jack Dongarra, Allen D. Malony, Shirley Moore, Phi...
Legacy systems are often business critical and are associated with high maintenance costs. In this paper, we present an overview of a method, Renaissance, which aims to manage the...