This paper investigates geometric and ontological aspects of shape concepts underlying the semantics of nouns. Considering the German shape nouns Ecke and Knick (corner and kink) w...
Carola Eschenbach, Christopher Habel, Lars Kulik, ...
As multicast applications are deployed for mainstream use, the need to secure multicast communications will become critical. Multicast, however, does not t the point-to-point mod...
In this paper we introduce Challenger, a multiagent system that performs completely distributed resource allocation. Challenger consists of agents which individually manage local ...
The coordination problem in multi-agent systems is the problem of managing dependencies between the activities of autonomous agents, in conditions of incomplete knowledge about th...
-- Reuse of large-grain software components offers the potential for significant savings in application development cost and time. Successful component reuse and substitutability ...
Nenad Medvidovic, Peyman Oreizy, Richard N. Taylor