This paper describes a variant of the actor model suited to the development of multimedia systems. The actor model centers on non-overkilling concurrency and customizable constrai...
In practice, managers often wish to ascertain that a particular engineering design of a production system meets their requirements. The future environment of this design is likely...
Digital Signal Processing (DSP) is becoming increasingly widespread in portable devices. Due to harsh constraints on power, latency, and throughput in embedded environments, devel...
Sitij Agrawal, William Thies, Saman P. Amarasinghe
Critical infrastructures display many of the characteristic properties of complex systems. They exhibit infrequent large failures events that often obey a power law distribution i...
Benjamin A. Carreras, David E. Newman, Paul Gradne...
Cooperation among autonomous agents has been discussed in the DAI community for several years. Papers about cooperation 6,45 , negotiation 33 , distributed planning 5 , and coalit...