We introduce the formal framework of a generalized interaction scheme for information access between users and information sources. Within this framework we describe an interactio...
This paper describes an infrastructure for the deployment and use of Web Services that are resilient to the failure of the nodes that host those services. The infrastructure prese...
Stuart J. Norcross, Alan Dearle, Graham N. C. Kirb...
Coalitions are collaborative networks of autonomous domains where resource sharing is achieved by the distribution of access permissions to coalition members based on negotiated r...
Himanshu Khurana, Serban I. Gavrila, Rakeshbabu Bo...
This paper uses robot experience to explore key concepts of autonomy, life and being. Unfortunately, there are no widely accepted definitions of autonomy, life or being. Using a ne...
In addition to indexes and materialized views, horizontal and vertical partitioning are important aspects of physical design in a relational database system that significantly imp...