Face-to-face meetings between auditors and their clients are increasingly difficult to arrange, due to business globalization and the growing need for rapid audit decision-making....
Fault tolerance is an important property of large-scale multiagent systems as the failure rate grows with both the number of the hosts and deployed agents, and the duration of com...
Frameworks are increasingly employed as a useful way to enable object-oriented reuse. However, their size and complexity make understanding how to use them difficult. Previous wor...
While the subject of SMP locking primitives has been well covered in the literature [Val][Schm][Bald][Leh], there has been relatively little discussion on the rationale and proces...
This paper analyzes some of the factors that prevent knowledge construction and reuse in traditional library settings and describes VRef, an environment designed to provide users ...