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...
Most foundational models for global computing have focused on the spatial dimension of computations, however global computing requires also new ways of thinking about the temporal ...
Gian Luigi Ferrari, Eugenio Moggi, Rosario Puglies...
: The most important aspect of concurrent and distributed computation is the interaction between system components. Integration of components into a system requires some synchroniz...
Gilberto Matos, James M. Purtilo, Elizabeth L. Whi...
To develop agent-based systems, one needs a methodology that supports the development process as common in other disciplines. In recent years, several such methodologies and model...
In component-based software engineering, reconfiguration describes structural changes to the architecture of a component system. For stateful components, not only structural but a...