Representing and reasoning with an agent's preferences is important in many applications of constraints formalisms. Such preferences are often only partially ordered. One clas...
act Account of Composition Mart n Abadi1 and Stephan Merz2 1 Digital Equipment Corporation, Systems Research Center, 130 Lytton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94301, U.S.A. 2 Institut fur I...
We address in this paper the problem of scheduling for multiprocessor real-time systems with hard and soft tasks. Utility functions are associated to soft tasks to capture their r...
Agent-based computing represents an exciting new synthesis both for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and, more generally, Computer Science. It has the potential to significantly impro...
Flash memory has become a virtually indispensable component for mobile devices in today’s information society. However, conventional testing methods often fail to detect hidden b...