This paper examines how methods inspired by biological processes can be applied to the design of large-scale environment-aware sensor networks. Our ultimate goal are systems conta...
In the past decade outsourcing a software system’s support and maintenance has become relatively common across most organizations. In this paper we consider a few issues governi...
Parking garages that stow and retrieve cars automatically are becoming viable solutions for parking shortages. However, these are complex systems and a number of severe incidents i...
The concept of an agent has recently become important in Artificial Intelligence (AI), and its relatively youthful subfield, Distributed AI (DAI). Our aim in this paper is to poin...
Software applications that work with biomedical data have significant knowledge-management requirements. Formal knowledge models and knowledge-based methods can be very useful in m...
Martin J. O'Connor, Ravi Shankar, Samson W. Tu, Cs...