Virtual environments provide a rich and varied domain for intelligent agents, but questions of design and development in this context are still to be answered. An agent with multip...
Recently, a number of frameworks were proposed to extend interface theory to the domains of single-processor and distributed real-time systems. This paper unifies some of these ap...
Lothar Thiele, Ernesto Wandeler, Nikolay Stoimenov
It has long been observed that database management systems focus on traditional business applications, and that few people use a database management system outside their workplace...
Hector Gonzalez, Alon Y. Halevy, Christian S. Jens...
rate, the CCHI is defined abstractly as a metric that can be stated in ordinary language and diagrams that allows people to answer the following three questions related to sustaina...
The authors have developed a new approach to database interoperability using the sketch data model. That technique has now been used in a number of applications, but an important ...