This paper explores the role of Information Technology (IT) in the management of municipally-owned and operated public utilities. Through semi-structured interviews of senior mana...
This paper describes an agent-based recommendation system developed to support knowledge acquisition and sharing processes. Its purpose is to aid the process of community building...
Mauro F. Koyama, Olga Nabuco, Francisco Edeneziano...
Current federated systems deploy cost-based query optimization mechanisms; i.e., the optimizer selects a global query plan with the lowest cost to execute. Thus, cost functions in...
Wen-Syan Li, Vishal S. Batra, Vijayshankar Raman, ...
Researchers in the eld of Distributed Arti cial Intelligence (DAI) have been developing e cient mechanisms to coordinate the activities of multiple autonomous agents. The need for...
The paper presents a hierarchical modeling approach of the N version programming in a real – time environment. The model is constructed in three layers. At the first layer we d...