Scalable coordination is a key challenge in deployment of multiagent systems. Resource usage is one part of agent behavior which naturally lends itself to abstraction. CyberOrgs i...
Despite steady research advances in many aspects of virtual reality, building and testing virtual worlds remains to be a very difficult process. Most virtual environments are stil...
Matching descriptions of user requirements against descriptions of service capabilities is crucial for the discovery of appropriate services for a given task. To improve the precis...
Sven Schade, Arnd Sahlmann, Michael Lutz, Florian ...
Previous work has proven typestates to be useful for modeling protocols in object-oriented languages. We build on this work by addressing substitutability of subtypes as well as i...
We investigate some approaches to solving nonconvex global optimization problems by convex nonlinear programming methods. We assume that the problem becomes convex when selected va...