We previously developed a social mechanism for distributed reputation management, in which an agent combines testimonies from several witnesses to determine its ratings of another...
Abstract—Since the advent of multi-core processors, the physionomy of typical clusters has dramatically evolved. This new massively multi-core era is a major change in architectu...
This is a time of increasing interdisciplinary research. Computer science is learning more from biology every day, enabling a plethora of new software techniques to flourish. And b...
Commercial OLAP systems usually treat OLAP dimensions as static entities. In practice, dimension updates are often necessary in order to adapt the multidimensional database to chan...
The eld of theory update has seen some improvement, in what regards updating, by allowing desired updates to be speci ed by update programs. The updating of models is governed by ...