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PODC
1997
ACM
14 years 19 days ago
Lazy Consistency Using Loosely Synchronized Clocks
Thispaperdescribesanewschemeforguaranteeingthattransactions in a client/server system observe consistent state while they are running. The scheme is presented in conjunction with ...
Atul Adya, Barbara Liskov
SIGGRAPH
1997
ACM
14 years 19 days ago
Fake fur rendering
A probabilistic lighting model is presented for thin coats of fur over skin. Previous methods for rendering furry objects and creatures have addressed the case where individual st...
Dan B. Goldman
AGENTS
1997
Springer
14 years 18 days ago
Progressive Negotiation For Time-Constrained Autonomous Agents
We address in this paper a problem of autonomous agents performing in a common environment where each agent has its goal to achieve before a given deadline. Agents must be able to...
Abdel-Illah Mouaddib
ICLP
1997
Springer
14 years 18 days ago
The Complexity of Model Checking in Modal Event Calculi
Kowalski and Sergot’s Event Calculus (EC) is a simple temporal formalism that, given a set of event occurrences, derives the maximal validity intervals (MVIs) over which propert...
Iliano Cervesato, Massimo Franceschet, Angelo Mont...
ICLP
1997
Springer
14 years 18 days ago
Non-Failure Analysis for Logic Programs
We provide a method whereby, given mode and (upper approximation) type information, we can detect procedures and goals that can be guaranteed to not fail (i.e., to produce at leas...
Saumya K. Debray, Pedro López-García...