Abstract. In this paper, we show how the concepts of objects, components, features and agents are used today in the Agent Building Center (ABC) environment in order to marry the mo...
Complete system simulation to understand the influence of architecture and operating systems on application execution has been identified to be crucial for systems design. While t...
Tao Li, Lizy Kurian John, Narayanan Vijaykrishnan,...
The emergence of networked devices in the home has made it possible to develop applications that control a variety of household functions. However, current devices communicate via ...
Learning general truths from the observation of simple domains and, further, learning how to use this knowledge are essential capabilities for any intelligent agent to understand ...
Paulo Santos, Derek R. Magee, Anthony G. Cohn, Dav...
In this paper, we consider the Grand Challenge under a very specific perspective: the enabling of application experts without programming knowledge to reliably model their busines...