Since knowledge bases (KBs) are usually incomplete, they should be able to provide information regarding their own incompleteness, which requires them to introspect on what they k...
CSCL systems can benefit from using grids since they offer a common infrastructure enabling the access to an extended pool of resources that can provide supercomputing capabilitie...
Guillermo Vega-Gorgojo, Miguel L. Bote-Lorenzo, Ed...
Because it takes time and trust to establish agreement, traditional consensus-based architectural styles cannot safely accommodate resources that change faster than it takes to tr...
This special issue describes a number of applications that utilize lifelike characters that teach indirectly, by playing some role in a social interaction with a user. The design ...
We present a decomposition strategy to speed up constraint optimization for a representative multiprocessor scheduling problem. In the manner of Benders decomposition, our techniq...