This paper considers a distributed system of software agents who cooperate in helping their users to find services, provided by different agents. The agents need to ensure that th...
—There are many standards which are relevant for building safety or mission critical software systems. An effective standard is one that should help developers, assessors, and us...
The number of cores present on-chip is increasing rapidly. The on-chip network that connects these cores needs to scale efficiently. The topology of on-chip networks is an importan...
For an enterprise to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by electronic commerce it must be able to make decisions about business transactions in near-realtime. In the com...
Identifying and tracking new information on the Web is important in sociology, marketing, and survey research, since new trends might be apparent in the new information. Such chan...