The ubiquity of our increasingly distributed and complex computing environments have necessitated the development of programming approaches and paradigms that can automatically man...
systems are commonly abstracted as collections of interacting components. This perspective has lead to the insight that component behaviors can be defined separately from admissi...
A constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) model can be preprocessed to ensure that any choices made will lead to solutions, without the need to backtrack. This can be especially usef...
J. Christopher Beck, Tom Carchrae, Eugene C. Freud...
Abstract. A theoretical model for agents interaction to study semantic heterogeneity is proposed. The context of this study is informational agents with knowledge bases that are he...
Abstract. Service oriented computing oers a new approach to programming. To be useful for large and diverse sets of problems, eective service selection and composition is crucial. ...