Extensible systems, such as Java or the SPIN extensible operating system, allow for units of code, or extensions, to be added to a running system in almost arbitrary fashion. Exte...
The goal of the Tsimmis Project is to develop tools that facilitate the rapid integration of heterogeneous information sources that may include both structured and unstructured da...
Sudarshan S. Chawathe, Hector Garcia-Molina, Joach...
While the Internet is hardly “broken”, it has proved unable to integrate new ideas, new architectures, and provide paths for future integration of data, voice, rich media and ...
Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos, Serge Fdida, Scott Kirkp...
Public-key cryptography can uniquely enable trust within distributed settings. Employing it usually requires deploying a set of tools and services collectively known as a public k...
Distributed Constraint Optimization (DCOP) is useful for solving agent-coordination problems. Any-space DCOP search algorithms require only a small amount of memory but can be spe...