Commitments model important aspects of agent interactions, especially those arising in e-business. A small number of patterns of commitments accommodate a variety of realistic int...
Shrinking process geometries and the increasing use of IP components in SoC designs give rise to new problems in routing and buffer insertion. A particular concern is that cross-c...
Soha Hassoun, Charles J. Alpert, Meera Thiagarajan
In this paper, we present a consensus algorithm for synchronous distributed systems using cooperating mobile agents. The algorithm is designed within a framework for mobile agent ...
Large shipyards for gigantic cruise ships require a special attention to safety due to the huge number of workers involved and to the complex structure of spaces. A critical issue...
Augusto Celentano, Fabio Furlan, Stefano Burcovich
The issues of schema evolution and temporal object models are generally considered to be orthogonal and are handled independently. However, to properly model applications that nee...
Iqbal A. Goralwalla, Duane Szafron, M. Tamer Ö...