Reasoning about permissions and obligations sometimes requires to distinguish more than one level of permission: certain actions are preferable to others, or one has more confiden...
As enterprises seek to engage in increasingly rich and agile forms of collaboration, they are turning towards service-oriented architectures that enable them to selectively expose...
We consider a manufacturing plant that purchases raw materials for product assembly and then sells the final products to customers. There are M types of raw materials and K types o...
Real-time dynamic programming (RTDP) is a heuristic search algorithm for solving MDPs. We present a modified algorithm called Focused RTDP with several improvements. While RTDP ma...
Abstract. With more cores integrated into one single chip, the overall power consumption from the multiple concurrent running programs increases dramatically in a CMP processor whi...