Spatio-temporal databases have been the focus of considerable research activity over a significant period. However, there are as of yet very few prototypes of complete systems, f...
Norman W. Paton, Alvaro A. A. Fernandes, Tony Grif...
Selective dynamic compilation systems, typically driven by annotations that identify run-time constants, can achieve significant program speedups. However, manually inserting ann...
Abstract The application of data mining algorithms needs a goal-oriented preprocessing of the data. In practical applications the preprocessing task is very time consuming and has ...
Residual defects is one of the most important factors that allow one to decide if a piece of software is ready to be released. In theory, one can find all the defects and count th...
The concept of an agent has recently become important in Artificial Intelligence (AI), and its relatively youthful subfield, Distributed AI (DAI). Our aim in this paper is to poin...