— In broadcast disk systems, information is broadcasted in a shared medium. When a client needs an item from the disk, it waits until that item is broadcasted. The fundamental al...
Several high-level programming languages for programming agents and robots have been proposed in recent years. Each of these languages has its own features and merits. It is still...
We show that characteristic formulae for nite-state systems up to bisimulationlike equivalences (e.g., strong and weak bisimilarity) can be given in the simple branching-time temp...
: The read-mostly environment of data warehousing makes it possible to use more complex indexes to speed up queries than in situations where concurrent updatesare present. The curr...
Information explosion across the Internet and elsewhere offers access to an increasing number of document collections. In order for users to e ectively access these collections, i...