In this paper we investigate two related aspects of the formalization of open interaction systems: how to specify norms, and how to enforce them by means of sanctions. The problem...
Thread-level speculative execution is a technique that makes it possible for a wider range of single-threaded applications to make use of the processing resources in a chip multip...
Abstract. We propose FIT, a flexible, light-weight and real-time scheduling system for wireless sensor platforms. There are three salient features of FIT. First, its two-tier hiera...
Wei Dong, Chun Chen, Xue Liu, Kougen Zheng, Rui Ch...
The many-to-many social communication activity on the popular technology-news website Slashdot has been studied. We have concentrated on the dynamics of message production without...
Today's natural language processing systems are growing more complex with the need to incorporate a wider range of language resources and more sophisticated statistical metho...