—We address the recently recognized privatization problem in software transactional memory (STM) runtimes, and introduce the notion of partially visible reads (PVRs) to heuristic...
Virendra J. Marathe, Michael F. Spear, Michael L. ...
One aspect of rational behavior is that agents can pursue multiple goals in parallel. Current BDI theory and systems do not provide a theoretical or architectural framework for dec...
Alexander Pokahr, Lars Braubach, Winfried Lamersdo...
Object mobility is the basis for highly dynamic distributed applications. This paper presents the design and implementation of mobile objects on the basis of the CORBA standard. Ou...
Abstract. Control synthesis is slowly transcending its traditional application domain within engineering to find interesting and useful applications in computer science. Synthesis...
Abstract. In this paper, we consider the process algebra ACPL, which models the basics of agent communication. This algebra combines the informationprocessing aspects of Concurrent...
Rogier M. van Eijk, Frank S. de Boer, Wiebe van de...