Adding distributed capabilities to existing programs has come to the forefront of software evolution. As a standard Java distributed technology, applets offer the advantages of be...
Abstract— This paper considers compression in packet networks. Since data packets may be dropped or arrive reordered, streaming compression algorithms result in a considerable de...
The upcoming next generation of the internet, often referred to as the Semantic Web, will bring a lot of new technologies, one of which is the Web Ontology Language (OWL). One fea...
Although in recent years the concept of leasing has become more and more popular in the field of distributed object-oriented systems, it has not yet been incorporated in the curre...
Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDP) provide a standard framework for sequential decision making in stochastic environments. In this setting, an agent takes actio...