Abstract. In this paper, we consider the issue of designing agents that successfully balance the amount of time spent in reconsidering their intentions against the amount of time s...
Customizable meta-objects are a powerful abstraction for extending language features and implementation mechanisms, but interpretive execution suffers from severe performance penal...
Although SIMD (Single Instruction stream Multiple Data stream) parallel computers have existed for decades, it is only in the past few years that a new version of SIMD has evolved...
When packet filtering is used as a security mechanism, different routers may need to cooperate to enforce the desired security policy. It is difficult to ensure that they will d...
We have designed, built, and analyzed a distributed parallel storage system that will supply image streams fast enough to permit multi-user, "real-time", video-like appl...
Brian Tierney, Jason Lee, Ling Tony Chen, Hanan He...