We extend the logical model of agency known as the KGP model, to support agents with normative concepts, based on the roles an agent plays and the obligations and prohibitions tha...
Streaming media is pervasive on the Internet now and is continuing to grow rapidly. Most streaming media systems have adopted the model of broadcast. Unfortunately, the nature of ...
Development of new transport protocols or protocol algorithms suffers from the complexity of the envir onment in which they ar e intended to run. Modeling techniques attempt to av...
We present an operational model for describing random reactive systems. Some models have already been proposed for this purpose, but they generally aim at performing global reason...
An important trend in Web information processing is the support of multimedia retrieval. However, the most prevailing paradigm for multimedia retrieval, content-based retrieval (C...