With the technology advance and the growth of Internet, the information that can be found in this net, as well as the number of users that access to look for specific data is big...
Distributed search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers distribute user...
Consistency maintenance (CM) techniques are a crucial part of many distributed systems, and are particularly important in networked games. In this paper we describe a framework of...
Amazons is a two-player perfect information game with a high branching factor, particularly in the opening. Therefore, improving the efficiency of the search is important for impro...
Autonomic Computing is now showing its value as a solution to the increased complexities of maintaining computer systems and has been applied to many different fields. In this pap...