We discuss the representation of knowledge and of belief from the viewpoint of decision theory. While the Bayesian approach enjoys general-purpose applicability and axiomatic foun...
A logic is defined which in addition to propositional calculus contains several types of probabilistic operators which are applied only to propositional formulas. For every s ∈...
Abstract— Standard embeded sensor nework models emphasize energy efficiency and distributed decision-making by considering untethered and unattended sensors. To this we add two ...
Rajgopal Kannan, Sudipta Sarangi, S. Sitharama Iye...
Most applications developed today rely on a given middleware platform which governs the interaction between components, the access to resources, etc. To decide, which platform is ...
The objective of query optimizers is to select a good execution plan for a given query. In a distributed system, it is crucial for a query optimizer to have effective remote cost e...