This paper attempts to articulate the general role of infrastructure for multi-agent systems (MAS), and why infrastructure is a particularly critical issue if we are to increase th...
It is known to many researchers in the partitioning community that the recursive bipartitioning approach outperforms the direct non-recursive approach in solving the multiway part...
stract This panel addresses a very important area that is often neglected or overlooked by database systems, database applications developers and data warehouse designers, namely s...
The recent trend towards dynamically extensible systems, such as Java, SPIN or VINO, promises more powerful and flexible systems. At the same time, the impact of extensibility on...
Email is one of the most successful computer applications yet devised. Our empirical data show however, that although email was originally designed as a communications application...