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ISSA
2004
13 years 6 months ago
A Unified Architecture For Automatic Software Updates
This paper attempts to address the issue of hardening the internal security of an organisation's network by easing its patch management. Traditionally security has been model...
Dominic White
TASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Lean Buffering in Serial Production Lines With Nonidentical Exponential Machines
Lean buffering is the smallest buffer capacity, which is necessary and sufficient to ensure the desired production rate of a manufacturing system. Literature offers methods for des...
Shu-Yin Chiang, Alexander Hu, Semyon M. Meerkov
CCGRID
2004
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Supporting quality of service in a non-dedicated opportunistic environment
In this paper we investigate the utilization of nondedicated, opportunistic resources in a desktop environment to provide statistical assurances to a class of QoS sensitive, soft ...
Jin Liang, Klara Nahrstedt
ATAL
2006
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
On proactivity and maintenance goals
Goals are an important concept in intelligent agent systems, and can take a variety of forms. One such form is maintenance goals, which, unlike achievement goals, define states th...
Simon Duff, James Harland, John Thangarajah
ATAL
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Aborting tasks in BDI agents
Intelligent agents that are intended to work in dynamic environments must be able to gracefully handle unsuccessful tasks and plans. In addition, such agents should be able to mak...
John Thangarajah, James Harland, David N. Morley, ...