In [6], we proposed a new commit protocol, OPT, specially designed for use in distributed firm-deadline real-time database systems. OPT allows transactions to “optimistically...
Ramesh Gupta, Jayant R. Haritsa, Krithi Ramamritha...
In formal approaches to commonsense reasoning about actions. the Ramification Problem denotes the problem of handling indirect effects which implicitly derive from so-called state...
Jeannette Wing’s call for teaching Computational Thinking (CT) as a formative skill on par with reading, writing, and arithmetic places computer science in the category of basic...
In many domains, we are interested in analyzing the structure of the underlying distribution, e.g., whether one variable is a direct parent of the other. Bayesian model selection a...
We look at the problem in belief revision of trying to make inferences about what an agent believed--or will believe--at a given moment, based on an observation of how the agent h...