Software maintenance is responsible for as much as two thirds of the cost of any software, and is consequently an important research area. In this paper we focus on the change pro...
We present an application of a multi-agent cooperative search approach to the problem of optimizing gas pipeline operations, i.e. finding control parameters for a gas transmission...
We present a method for fine grain QoS control of multimedia applications. This method takes as input an application software composed of actions parameterized by quality levels. ...
In this paper, we propose a dynamic pricing strategy which is used for a market-based resource allocation mechanism in a local Grid. We implement an agent based Grid economy in whi...
Information retrieval emerged as independent research area from traditional database management system more than a decade ago. This was driven by the increasing functional require...