In this paper we propose a formalism for symbolic negotiation. We regard symbolic negotiation as cooperative problem solving (CPS), which is based on symbolic reasoning and is ext...
—We present a middleware platform for assembling pervasive applications that demand fault-tolerance and adaptivity in distributed, dynamic environments. Unlike typical adaptive m...
Hubert Pham, Justin Mazzola Paluska, Umar Saif, Ch...
In this paper, we propose FLUXO, a system that separates an Internet service's logical functionality from the architectural decisions made to support performance, scalability...
Emre Kiciman, V. Benjamin Livshits, Madanlal Musuv...
Combining access control with weakly consistent replication presents a challenge if the resulting system is to support eventual consistency. If authorization policy can be tempora...
Ted Wobber, Thomas L. Rodeheffer, Douglas B. Terry
In this paper, we introduce RICE, a graphical application for interacting with the description logic inference server Racer. Comparing RICE with OilEd, we address the problem of v...