This paper takes the view that to be considered autonomous, a software agent must possess the means by which to manage its own motivations and so define new goals. Using the motiva...
: This paper discusses the issues and promising approaches in (1) obtaining rigorous specifications of the quality-of-service (QoS) requirements associated with application functio...
This paper presents a new architecture of a database management system intended to be used together with existing graphics software. In the first place, a system with this archite...
The need to model systems and their different aspects leads to research and development of models which support all views of a system. The growing complexity of the software impos...
Lyrene Fernandes da Silva, Virginia C. Carneiro de...
Ubiquitous context-aware computing systems present several challenges in their construction. Principal among them is the tradeoff between easily providing new contextaware service...
William G. Griswold, Robert T. Boyer, Steven W. Br...