Traditional client-server applications relegate query and persistence operations on their data to database systems. The database system operates on data in the form of rows and ta...
Applications that process complex inputs often react in different ways to changes in different regions of the input. Small changes to forgiving regions induce correspondingly smal...
A helpful abstraction of a group of agents is a set of interacting roles, or sets of normative behaviors, that the agents can assume. An important characteristic of real-world agen...
James Odell, H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, ...
This work focuses on scenarios that require the storage of large amounts of data. Such systems require the ability to either continuously increase the storage space or reclaim spa...
In this paper we introduce the iTask system: a set of combinators to specify work flows in a pure functional language at a very high level of abstraction. Work flow systems are au...
Rinus Plasmeijer, Peter Achten, Pieter W. M. Koopm...