A good object-oriented design does not necessarily make a good component-based design, and vice versa. What design principles do components introduce? This paper examines componen...
Mobile applications increasingly require transaction-like properties, particularly those of recovery. Because there is a lack of abstractions to decompose the machinery of recover...
Bayesian advocates of expected utility maximization use sets of probability distributions to represent very different ideas. Strict Bayesians insist that probability judgment is n...
We present a computation-centric theory of memory models. Unlike traditional processor-centric models, computation-centric models focus on the logical dependencies among instructi...
Abstract. Autonomous agents decide for themselves, on the basis of their beliefs, goals, etc., how to act in an environment. However, it is often the case that an agent is motivate...