Many environments in which humans wayfind can be conveniently abstracted as networks or graphs: structures of nodes that are interconnected by edges. Examples include the street ne...
platform and a suite of abstract components with which new developments in different application domains can be engineered with minimal effort [1]p.16. Generic platforms, or refere...
Methods for solving Distributed Constraint Optimization Problems (DCOP) have emerged as key techniques for distributed reasoning. Yet, their application faces significant hurdles...
Cache groups are a powerful concept for database caching, which is used to relieve the backend database load and to keep referenced data close to the application programs at the &q...
In an Arc Consistency (AC) algorithm, a residual support, or residue, is a support that has been stored during a previous execution of the procedure which determines if a value is ...