In the near future, Ambient Intelligence (AmI) will become part of everyday life. Combining feature-rich multimedia with AmI (dubbed Ambient Multimedia for short) has the potentia...
In real-life multi-agent planning problems, long-term plans will often be invalidated by changes in the environment during or after the planning process. When this happens, short-t...
Xiaoyu Mao, Adriaan ter Mors, Nico Roos, Cees Witt...
Most of all software systems have to be changed after their initial deployment. This is not only because of changing knowledge and expectations about our domains and systems, but a...
Robert Hirschfeld, Katsuya Kawamura, Hendrik Bernd...
Abstract--Service-Oriented Architectures address the development of distributed and dynamic service-based applications. Due to the dynamics of their environments, services should b...
Andre Lage Freitas, Jean-Louis Pazat, Nikos Parlav...
Many scientific applications need to stage large volumes of files from one set of machines to another set of machines in a wide-area network. Efficient execution of such data t...