It is widely accepted in Distributed Artificial Intelligence that a crucial property of artificial agents is their autonomy. Whereas agent autonomy enables features of agent-base...
We describe the QccPack software package, an open-source collection of library routines and utility programs for quantization, compression, and coding of data. QccPack is being wr...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a form-based handprint recognition system for reading information written on forms. This public domain soft...
A type-indexed function is a function that is defined for each member of some family of types. Haskell’s type class mechanism provides collections of open type-indexed function...
Assessing the reliability of a software system has always been an elusive target. A program may work very well for a number of years and this same program may suddenly become quit...