Over the last few years, object-oriented techniques have gained an increasing recognition both in software engineering and in AI. Object-oriented systems present undisputable adva...
One of the principal advantages of parallelizing a rule-based system, or more generally, any A.I. system, is the ability to pursue alternate search paths concurrently. Conventiona...
Recent work has shown that we can dramatically improve the performance of computer games and simulations through declarative processing: Character AI can be written in an imperati...
Ben Sowell, Alan J. Demers, Johannes Gehrke, Nitin...
The challenge of managing unstructured data represents perhaps the largest data management opportunity for our community since managing relational data. And yet we are risking let...
AnHai Doan, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Akanksha Baid, Xi...
— In this paper, we address a fundamental problem concerning the optimal searching strategy in terms of searching cost for the target discovery problem in wireless networks. In o...