The integration of database and programming languages is made difficult by the different data models and type systems prevalent in each field. Functional-object query languages con...
In real world applications, agents - be they software agents or autonomous robots - inevitably face erroneous situations that have not been planned for. Re-planning can sometimes ...
Robert J. Ross, Rem W. Collier, Gregory M. P. O'Ha...
We identify here various kinds of failure conditions and robustness issues that arise in context-aware pervasive computing applications. Such conditions are related to failures in...
With the near ubiquity of mobile phones, people are reachable almost anywhere and at any time. The convenience this provides for people to more effectively combine different aspec...
— Distributed computing systems are increasingly being created as self-organizing collections of many autonomous (human or software) agents cooperating as peers. Peer-to-peer coo...