: Some of the shortcomings of using refinement alone as the means of passing from high level simple models to actual detailed implementations are reviewed. Retrenchment is presente...
There is a need to be able to program network components to adapt to application requirements for quality of service, specialised application dependent routing, to increase effici...
Although work pr ocesses, like software pr ocesses, include a number of process aspects such as defined phases and deadlines, they are not plannable in detail. Howe ver, the advan...
Abstract. Auction-based electronic commerce is an increasingly interesting domain for AI researchers. In this paper we present an attempt towards the construction of trading agents...
Abstract. We describe several improvements to Freund and Schapire's AdaBoost boosting algorithm, particularly in a setting in which hypotheses may assign confidences to each o...