In this paper, an agent is defined as a triple (S, RS, LS), where S is a multi-hierarchical decision system, RS is a set of rules extracted from S defining values of its decision a...
Subordinate-level categorization typically rests on establishing salient distinctions between part-level characteristics of objects, in contrast to basic-level categorization, whe...
Ryan Farrell, Om Oza, Ning Zhang, Vlad I. Morariu,...
For the last few years, large Web content providers interested in improving their scalability and availability have increasingly turned to three techniques: mirroring, content dis...
—Popular web services and applications such as Google Apps, DropBox, and Go.Pc introduce a wasteful imbalance of processing resources. Each host operated by a provider serves hun...
We describe the Paraflow system for connecting heterogeneous computing services together into a flexible and efficient data-mining metacomputer. There are three levels of parallel...