Starburst is an experimental database management system prototype whose objectives include extensibility, support for knowledge databases, use of memory-resident database techniqu...
The beliefs of an agent reflecting her subjective view of the world constitute one of the main components of a BDI agent. In order to incorporate new information coming from other...
This work is done as part of the Tacos project1 whose aims is to define a component-based approach to specify trustworthy systems from the requirements phase to the specification p...
Referral networks are a kind of P2P system consisting of autonomous agents who seek, provide services, or refer other service providers. Key applications include service discovery...
We propose a radical approach to relational query processing that aims at automatically and consistently achieving a good performance on any memory hierarchy. We believe this auto...