It is today widely acceptedthat "Business Rules Independence" is required for information systemsto better and more rapidly adjust to changesin thebusinessenvironment,Th...
The elapsed time for external mergesort is normally dominated by I/O time. This paper is focused on reducing I/O time during the merge phase. Three new buffering and readahead str...
Rendering and animating in real-time a multitude of articulated characters presents a real challenge and few hardware systems are up to the task. Up to now little research has bee...
The paper addresses the problemof solving classic distributed algorithmic problems under the practical model of Broadcast Communication Networks. Our main result is a new Leader El...
A well-known framework by Fagin, Halpern, Moses and Vardi models knowledge-based agents as \Interpreted Systems". In this paper we analyse a particular class of interpreted sy...