Active Queue Management (AQM) is an attempt to find a delicate balance between two antagonistic Internet queuing requirements: First, buffer space should be maximized to accommod...
Adaptive query processing in large distributed systems has seen increasing importance due to the rising environmental fluctuations in a growing Internet. We describe Ginga, an ad...
Abstract. Formal methods, in particular model checking, are increasingly accepted as integral part of system development. With large software systems beyond the range of fully auto...
Natalia Ioustinova, Natalia Sidorova, Martin Steff...
Interacting State Machines (ISMs) are used to model reactive systems and to express and verify their properties. They can be seen both as automata exchanging messages simultaneousl...
This chapter aims to introduce the reader to the basic issues surrounding the design and implementation of intelligent agents. It begins by motivating the idea of an agent, present...