The construction of distributed applications is a challenging task due to inherent system properties like message passing and concurrency. Current technology trends further increas...
Since across-chip interconnect delays can exceed a clock cycle in nanometer technologies, it has become essential in high performance designs to add flip-flops on wires with multi...
Vidyasagar Nookala, Ying Chen, David J. Lilja, Sac...
In real-life multi-agent planning problems, long-term plans will often be invalidated by changes in the environment during or after the planning process. When this happens, short-t...
Xiaoyu Mao, Adriaan ter Mors, Nico Roos, Cees Witt...
Business Process Management (BPM) is often a key component of the business change. Business rules, whether embedded within BPM or on their own, have begun playing an ever-increasi...
This paper synthesizes two trends in the engineering of agent-based systems. One, modern agent-oriented methodologies deal with the key aspects of software development including re...